Re: Who is compiling Eu, and why?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Jan 30, 2015
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Ok, over to the development team: Can you develop new features in OE faster and easier if those new features are not simultaneously pushed into the compiler, and future OE work be only for the interpreter and binder?
On the one hand, less work gets done faster than more work, so yes.
This question doesn't obviate the use of compiled "helper" exe or dll files, which may be needed to duplicate environments in string execution or assigning threads to different cpu cores.
A big use case that everyone relies on is translating and compiling the front end of euphoria.
I'd definitely like to see multi-threading. We have a lot of work to do there, starting with figuring out how we want that to work. String execution is far from trivial, even just for interpreted code.
Matt
