[cfe-commits] Somewhat outdated documentation

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Mon Jan 7 09:03:09 PST 2013


Great observation.  Actually the document needs to be rephrased that PTH is largely a mechanism now for doing performance analysis of the frontend by reducing lexing time to help find the other "hot" parts of the compiler.

On Jan 7, 2013, at 5:34 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devlists at shadowlab.org> wrote:

> While reading the PTH internal doc, I found the following paragraph that should probably be updated…
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> "There are plans to potentially implement an complementary PCH implementation for Clang based on the lazy deserialization of ASTs. This approach would theoretically have the same constant-time algorithmic advantages just mentioned but would also retain some of the strengths of PTH such as reduced memory pressure (ideal for multi-core builds)."
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