Hi All, I have some questions regarding FPC's generics implementation, just out of curiosity.
The FPC wiki states that the ppu file stores all the tokens for the generic classes. Browsing the source of compiler/symdef.pas (r31298) also gave me this impression. Does it mean that a recompilation occurs for every specialization? There have been some ideas (again, regarding the wiki) to store the parse tree instead of the source code (or tokens) in the ppu. I guess that would made the specializations quicker. What were the reasons against it? Disabling assignment compatibility of the separate specializations (with same parameter type) might reduce the number of specializations. Were there any specific reasons for enabling it in objpas mode? Please CC me the answers, I'm not a list member! Best, Mátyás Jani
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