On 6/10/15, 8:36 AM, "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Volunteers are welcome to try to fix it. Or implement a whole new >> incremental compile strategy. I think I’ve noticed that Java compiler >> writes out an .class file and uses file dates to determine whether to >> compile again and seems to do that very quickly. I’ve pondered whether >> Falcon would get similar gains if we wrote out .abc files. > >So, it seems the compiler maintains a kind of session between the >compilation, how ? IIRC, the compiler would checksum public APIs and write it to a temporary file. The strategy of only re-compiling files affected by public APIs changed in other files is interesting, but seemed to be buggy. >So, why to generate the .abc and compare its modify date while we can do >that with the source file ? We would compare source file date against .abc file date and then use the abc as if it were from a swc and not compile the source file. -Alex
