[m-dev.] Link before or after back end code generation.

[Eric Taucher]

Thanks

The "No don't do that" was funny.

I was going to do the second one as an exercise and weigh the pros and cons,
but you saved me the time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mercury-developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au [mailto:owner-mercury-
> developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au] On Behalf Of Peter Ross
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:01 PM
> To: mercury-developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [m-dev.] Link before or after back end code generation.
> 
> On 6/26/07, Eric Taucher <gluon at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I am just looking for comments and feedback.
> >
> > For the IL backend we currently have multiple dll files making up the
> > library. To upgrade to .NET 2.0 the library is more easily created as
> one
> > file. There are two methods that I see are possible to create the one
> file:
> >
> > After the code is converted to the IL backend form, by using illink to
> link
> > the separate modules into one assembly.
> 
> This is what should be done.  Just a note, this is what is currently
> done today for .NET 1.0, they have the extension .dll, but they are
> not assemblies.
> 
> > Before the code is converted to the backend form, by merging the
> separate
> > *.m files and then converting into the IL backend form.
> >
> No don't do that, otherwise you will lose separate compilation.  ie
> you change one file and then you have to recompile everything, very
> time consuming.
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