On 11/21/2018 3:19 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 10:56:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Wouldn't it be awesome to have the lexing/parsing of the imports all done in
parallel? The main difficulty in getting that to work is dealing with the
shared string table.
What about creating a new Fiber for each module needing lexing/parsing/semantic
to be ran? Compilation of one module would then get as far as it can until it
needs to defer, then calls yield() to continue compilation of the next module.
This in hope that when the round trip returns, the AST will be sufficiently
complete enough for compilation to continue.
Since the lexing/parsing does not do any blocking calls, fibers won't help. It
has to be another hardware thread.
Trying to parallelize semantic over multiple modules will be very hard to do.
