On 7 June 2013 05:37, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/2013 12:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> I think class hierarchy analysis is very doable for whole D projects. You >> just >> pass the tool all files in the project and it does its thing. >> >> http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~**palsberg/tba/papers/dean-** >> grove-chambers-ecoop95.pdf<http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/tba/papers/dean-grove-chambers-ecoop95.pdf> >> >> This would actually be a great GSoC-style project, distributable via >> tools/. >> > > The trouble, as has been pointed out before, is shared libraries. > And the existence of 'sufficiently smart linker', and the fact that the platforms that suffer from this stuff way harder than x86 almost always have less mature compilers/optimisers/linkers. I just wouldn't ever place my faith in the future arrival of some sufficiently-smart-[tool]. You couldn't make a business investment on that illusive possibility.
