Re: Source files organisation using gnat

[nabbasi@earthlink.net]

In article <dewar.868369368@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu says...
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>>Geert said
>>
>>So what might be useful is to have some kind of compilation server
>>that can keep state between compilations and re-use internal datastructures
>>like parse trees. Of course in that case you may have to worry about
>>memory management and for example restart the server periodically.>>
>
>Yes, of course, this is an obvious idea, and is exactly what I was 
>talking about when I said we had some schemes to substantially 
>speed up compiatlations. In fact we hvae had a detyailed design for 
>doing this for over a year -- i's on the list!
>

This does not sound much different in its idea (may be not in
implementation) than using a library-based Ada compilation system
to store such informations,  as is done for example by the VAX/VMS 
Ada83 compiler, i.e. the traditional Ada compilation system, 
instead of source-based Ada compilation system such as gnat.  

no ?

Nasser