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Re: Faster compilation speed
Stan Shebs wrote:-
> One of my suspicions is that the massive use of macros in tree
> and RTL is concealing excessive pointer chasing, because they
> don't show up in either profile or coverage numbers.
Yes. I look forward to the day when we use type-safe structures
that contain only the relevant information, rather than a "tree"
which is little more than the union of the universe, along with
compensating macros to detect type violations.
Neil.