dmd support for IDEs

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>> The IDE usually keeps the files in memory and could therefore just 
>> call something like getSemantics(char** fileBuffers, int* fileSizes, 
>> int nFiles, ParseNode* parseTree) and have its parse nodes already 
>> allocated in process memory ready for use.
>>
>> Considering a lot of IDEs like to re-parse the current file every time 
>> the keyboard is idle for a few seconds, this could really help 
>> performance, nothing is more annoying than an IDE that feels 
>> unresponsive.
> 
> ...
 >
> Experience also suggests that using fork/exec rather than a shared dll 
> approach is much more robust and easier to develop. The reason is that 
> the former uses separate processes, which cannot step on each other. The 
> latter puts everything in one process space, where you've got all the 
> lovely, time-consuming, hair-pulling concurrency problems. The utter 
> failure of the parse process also cannot bring down the IDE.

	Plus, with a DLL you're contaminated by the GPL: the IDE *has* to 
be GPL-compatible to use your DLL. With fork/exec there are no such 
constraints...

		Jerome
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