[fpc-devel] Re: Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Kylix 3

[Sven Barth]

Am 04.03.2013 14:28, schrieb Daniël Mantione:
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> Op Mon, 4 Mar 2013, schreef Mattias Gaertner:
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>> Is there no cache?
>> Something like: Give me all '+' operator overloads in all used units
>> of interface, implementation.
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> Actually a cache was part of my symtable redesign years ago. It never 
> made it into the compiler. But it was designed with a slightly 
> different idea in mind: If you do a symtable lookup you can have many 
> symtables to process:
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> - With statement
> - Local variables
> - Parameters
> - Object symtables, one per inherited object
> - Unit symtables, two per loaded unit (interface & implementation)
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> The idea was to remove this lineair search through all symtables.
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> The concept never made it in the final compiler.
Did you work out the concept somewhere?

Regards,
Sven