Re: how to increase compilation performance

"Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com>
10 Feb 1999 16:03:47 -0500

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From: "Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Feb 1999 16:03:47 -0500
Organization: Netcom
References: 99-02-027
Keywords: performance, comment

"Thomas Gänshirt" <genshirt@modicon.de> wrote:
>I have implemented a compiler for ST/IL running on an automation
>system. Now I have the job to make the compiler as fast as possible
>for the case, that a programmer changes his source only "a little". An
>idea was to split the source into small pages and only to rebuild the
>modified and affected ones.
>
>Does anybody of you has experience with incremental compilers? Or can
>you recommend any information sources? I tried to make a design, but
>it seems quite complicated to find out, which fragments of the source
>have to be recompiled.


Hello Thomas,


You might have a look at the book Writing Interactive Compilers And
Interpreters, by P.J. Brown, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0 471 27609
X. Brown discusses incremental compilers.


Charles
[I'd love to get a copy of that book. It's long out of print. -John]

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