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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:11:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:15:51 +0200, Michael S wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:48:41 +0000 Richard Harnden
> <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Any sane shop would reject a source file that long.
>> It's unmaintainable.
>
> Second, huge "source" files tend to be computer-generated. So they are
> only source from POV of back-end compiler. From the POV of humans they
> are intermediate products. So, there are no concerns of maintainability.

If the intermediate file was in something like LLVM-IR instead of C, it 
would be even larger, by an order of magnitude or more.

Typically, though, it wouldn’t exist as a discrete file on disk, but just 
a stream of data through a pipe.