Do everything in Java…

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/17/2014 1:29 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 20:48:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I know how to do binary formats - the Digital Mars C++ compiler does
>> precompiled headers using memory mapped files.
>>
>> It isn't worth it.
>
> Maybe not for headerfiles, but if you have an indexed database representing a
> compiled framework (partial evaluation/incomplete type support in templates) it
> should pay off if you preload the pages you need to access. If you run low on
> memory it also means you don't have to save pages to disk, the OS can just evict
> them.

You're welcome to try it. I've spent a great deal of time on it, and it doesn't 
pay off.