Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[Walter Bright]

On 2/12/2022 9:20 AM, max haughton wrote:
> I'm specifically talking about the file that handles elf files, it's very messy 
> and uses some absolutely enormous structs which are naturally very slow by 
> virtue of their size.

The elf generator was written nearly 30 years ago, and has never been refactored 
properly to modernize it. It could sure use it, but I'm not so sure it would 
speed things up noticeably.

If you want to take a crack at it, feel free!