[plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 19:47:04 EDT 2009

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Eli Barzilay<eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Aug 12, Robby Findler wrote:
>> Okay, after some more thought and offline consultation, I've changed
>> the way DrScheme works wrt to saving compiled .zo files. It now
>> saves its compiled files in compiled/drscheme/ (and
>> compiled/drscheme/errortrace), meaning that the files will be
>> ignored when mzscheme runs. It also only looks in those directories
>> when it is in compiled-file-generation mode.
>
> Won't this have the same problem with multiple versions of drscheme
> using the same file?

Not unless there is a bug in CM; it should just recompile files when
they are out of date.

Robby


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