Cherry on top for redub: looking for a module import analyzer

[max haughton]

On Wednesday, 24 July 2024 at 12:29:37 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
> It is possible to make root builds way faster, specially for 
> those which contains a lot of code. That being said, I would 
> need an implementation of import analyzing library.
>
> It should work as simply as: send a source file path and import 
> paths then  it returns: the imported files by this file which 
> it were found on:
>
> ```d
>
> struct SourceFile
> {
>     string importPath, string sourcePath;
> }
>
> SourceFile[] getDependencies(string inputFile, string[] 
> importPaths);
>
> ```
>
> If that kind of work has been done in this area, I could do an 
> improvement to redub.
> Keep in mind that this is not a guaranteed improvement since 
> the time it needs to analyze the imports can't be greater than 
> the time won by using object files.

In general you can't really do this because of string mixins. In 
practice you can get obviously get quite close.