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Re:Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi ed... by modeless on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:37PM (#14134204)
I've been wondering lately if it would be possible to make an entire compiler stack incremental, so that the binary changes on disk as I type. I am positively sick of waiting tens of seconds or even minutes for the compiler to redo all the work it's already done thousands of times just to make a one-byte change to my binary.
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Re:Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi ed... by cscheid on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:46PM (#14134282)
Presumably, moving to an infrastructure like this (everything is incremental) is the biggest difference between Old compilers and New compilers, because of the ubiquitous IDE. I think I remember watching a talk by Anders Hejlsberg about this.
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