On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 23:23:50 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/10/2014 4:15 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I prefer the model used by the referred languages, where
binary libraries and
metadata is used, instead of the C toolchain model.
For example, just shipping the .TPU/.DCU libraries in the
Object Pascal world.
If the metadata had enough info in it to do inlining, it might
as well be the source code.
Er ... but you're the guy who stresses that lexers cannot be fast
enough because they need to look at every input char. (And you're
right.) You can at least cache the lexing step. Not that D's
compiler is not fast enough anyway, I'm just saying that your
statement is really weird.
