Tony Pelton wrote:
hi all,
i wanted to ask a question, before i spend time going down a road to
implement it.
are there any know limits on how big a source file can be for the FPC compiler ?
i was thinking about experimenting with "code generating" a source
file that would become a memory resident database of sorts.
this would make my application, implemented as a shared library
"plugin" quite fast, and would potentially simplify the distribution
of my shared library to my user base.
are there any thoughts on having a source file that might be megabytes
in size that is basically just structured data implemented as source ?
What means structured data? Source data size doesn't matter, they can be
up to 2 GB, the important thing is the size of the resulting parsing
pieces. I.e. very long procedures (>10k lines), statements, expressions
call for trouble. If you create a 1M line file with 100k procedures or
declarations, I don't expect trouble.
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