Do everything in Java…

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/11/2014 12:05 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:17:11 -0800
> Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/2014 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Yeah, the compiler cannot instantiate the template without access to the
>>> full body. It *could*, though, if we were to store template body IR in
>>> object files, perhaps under specially-dedicated object file sections. It
>>> wouldn't prevent reverse-engineering (which is moot anyway when
>>> templates are involved), but it *would* work as an "opaque" library
>>> interface file.
>>
>> 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).
>

Yeah, you just need to write another parser for the binary format, rather than 
reuse a canned D parser. :-)