On 6/12/2012 2:07 AM, timotheecour wrote:
There's a current pull request to improve di file generation
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/945); I'd like to suggest
further ideas.
As far as I understand, di interface files try to achieve these conflicting
goals:
1) speed up compilation by avoiding having to reparse large files over and over.
2) hide implementation details for proprietary reasons
3) still maintain source code in some form to allow inlining and CTFE
4) be human readable
(4) was not a goal.
A .di file could very well be a binary file, but making it look like D source
enabled them to be loaded with no additional implementation work in the compiler.
