Edit-and-continue

[Diego Novillo]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 14:37, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> This idea is related to Tom Tromey's incremental compiler work
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/IncrementalCompiler) and to Per Bothner's
> compiler server work
> (http://per.bothner.com/papers/GccSummit03-slides/index.html).  Neither
> project is currently active.  I believe that Diego Novillo is currently
> doing some work along these lines but I don't know what the status is.

We are finishing up a prototype implementation for per-file
pre-tokenization.  If this works out, we will see about adding parsing
results to the cache.  Our goal would be to finish Tom's incremental
compiler.  But we are still very much in preliminary stages of the
work.


Diego.