From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q: common types?!
Date: 12 Oct 1994 17:37:46 -0400
Date: 1994-10-12T17:37:46-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37hkva$dc@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1994Oct12.123948.1@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
The argument that the common types package will be frequently changed and
frequently withed AND THEREFORE cause the whole system to be recompiled
is bogus.
Whether or not this occurs is a characteristic of your implementation. If
you are using an incremental system like Dec or Rational, adding declarations
to a common types package will not cause you to have to recompile any
existing clients.
This might happen in some systems, and needs to be considered, but it is
wrong to assume it is true as a matter of course.
P.S. GNAT currently does not have smart recompilation (probably a bvetter
phrase than incremental system that I used above), but there is an interesting
paper being given at Tri-Ada which will describe a smart recompilation
system being built for use with GNAT.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-28 15:16 Q: common types?! Tony Leavitt
1994-09-29 11:37 ` Peter Hermann
1994-09-29 15:35 ` Tucker Taft
1994-10-05 4:40 ` Daniel Wengelin
1994-10-12 17:39 ` gamache
1994-10-12 20:36 ` Kraig Hanson
1994-10-12 21:37 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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