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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/18/2010 04:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Is it really necessary to support streaming archives?
>> It is not necessary, only vital.
>
> I understand your point.
>
> But I still would like a way to build and read archives entirely in
> memory. One reason is that's how dmd is able to generate libraries so
> quickly.

Makes sense.

(On the read side, reading in memory is not a problem if reading from a 
stream is defined - just use the streaming interface to load stuff in 
memory. For the writing part we need the mythical streaming abstraction 
that replaces current streams...)

Andrei