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And how exactly do you propose to compile a file without reading it?
by jimmaswell 13y ago
And how exactly do you propose to compile a file without reading it?
- mgkimsal 13y agoCome on man... really... it's right there. javascript streaming asynchronous. I'm not sure how many more buzzwords you need. those earlier losers who built make, gcc, and other tools just didn't know what they were doing. And with newer tech, everyone who's not streaming asynchronous javascript is a dinosaur luddite.
- nawitus 13y agoI didn't propose that. The point is to read the file once, then do multiple steps on it, and write it out just once.
- camus2 13y agoyeah,it's called piping and supported natively in make.
- nawitus 13y agoI stand corrected :).
- aryastark 13y agoI feel like this whole thread is a bad joke. Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH. You might also be interested in make -j option.
- cwmma 13y agopipes and streams mean something slightly more specify in a node context, but they are actually compatible with Unix streams, which shockingly enough also work well on windows meaning you can string together a make-like build system which works on windows as well (easily, make is not easy on windows)
- aryastark 13y agoNot sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.
- markrages 13y agoIf only the operating system had some facility to store a recently read file in RAM, so it didn't have to read it from the disk the next time. That would be a real innovation! (sarcasm)
- gyepi 13y agoPage caching: it's been around for a while. At least on unix systems. I imagine Windows, etc have it too.