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Re: Dynamic inclusion

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 22, 2004
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Andy Drummond wrote:

> Juergen suggested the possibility of including intermediate language
> files as an alternative to including source files.
>
> It would be good, I think, if the interpreter, which generates the
> IL files, could check to see if an included source file already has
> a compiled IL file available, and use that instead. In the same way
> that a lot of C/C++ compilers check first to see if an included file
> has a later object file before re-compiling.

I think that would be comfortable!

> It would save a lot of time with files like Win32Lib when you are
> developing a new program and doing frequent runs. On my home P3 500MHz
> machine it takes some 10-15 seconds to recompile Win32Lib each time,
> which is not nice.  Yeah, yeah, I could fork out for a new PC, but
> that's not a sensible answer.

Agreed.

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Regards,
   Juergen

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