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diff --git a/compiler/ic/design.rst b/compiler/ic/design.rst index d8e1315b1..b096e3103 100644 --- a/compiler/ic/design.rst +++ b/compiler/ic/design.rst @@ -7,12 +7,8 @@ The frontend produces a set of `.rod` files. Every `.nim` module produces its own `.rod` file. - The IR must be a faithful representation of the AST in memory. -- The backend can do its own caching but doesn't have to. -- We know by comparing 'nim check compiler/nim' against 'nim c compiler/nim' - that 2/3 of the compiler's runtime is spent in the frontend. Hence we - implement IC for the frontend first and only later for the backend. The - backend will recompile everything until we implement its own caching - mechanisms. +- The backend can do its own caching but doesn't have to. In the + current implementation the backend also caches its results. Advantage of the "set of files" vs the previous global database: - By construction, we either read from the `.rod` file or from the |