GSOC Linker project

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:31:24 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/4/12, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Ever heard of Java?
>
> Ever heard of not requiring a bring-your-quadcore-to-its-knees IDE?

This is a totally false comparison :)  Java's storage of its interface in  
its object files has nothing to do with its IDE's performance.

What I'm saying is, it's completely possible to store the API in binary  
format *in* the object files, and use documentation generators to document  
the API.  You do not have to read the interface files to understand the  
API, and Java is a good example of a language that successfully does that.

-Steve