Do everything in Java…
Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 11 00:57:56 PST 2014
>>
>> Storing it as body IR accomplishes nothing practical over
>> storing it as source file, i.e. .di files.
> except that there's no need to parse source code over and over
> again,
> which is good for other tools (like completion suggesting,
> intelligent
> code browsing and so on).
Which usually hold an AST in memory anyway. We have a fast
parser, parsing even a big codebase once is really not a problem,
see DCD for example.
If the only advantage is to skip a parsing stage here or there,
it does not justify the work that would be needed.
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