Re: Fwd: I released the refactoring tool

Tu Do writes:
>> That's my plan as well, using libtooling.
>
> That's great if you can take care of this. I would not want to wait forever
> until we are permitted to use GCC :)

Yes, I've given up on using GCC.

>> Not sure what you're planning here. Do you want to replace Semanticdb
> completely, or do you want to make Sqlite a back end for Semanticdb?
> Hard to say how much that would gain, since AFAIK, there's no efficient
> way to transfer large amounts of data between Emacs and Sqlite.

[...]

> - Async: this alone is worth it.
> - Code querying with a popular and robust language. This will enable people to
> write small utilities using SQL, such as code metrics or statistics. With an
> actual database engine, we can do operation like searching for all functions
> that call current function, accurately; or all files that include a particular
> header files; or see all the included files that contain the definitions of
> tags in a current class; or simply creating a class index of a project (similar
> to what Ebrowse does, but for large index, it took Emacs really long to load
> all).... All of this can be delegated to a fast database engine. All we need is
> a properly designed database for tags.

I agree this all sounds nice. I'm skeptical because I wouldn't want to
see CEDET's complexity increased even further. Maintaining a second
database backend for Semantic would be a very big burden, and I feel
we're already struggling just keeping up with Emacs development and
maintaining the status quo. In my opinion, CEDET's main problem is not
that it cannot deal with large code bases, but that it's still not
reliable enough and too complicated to set up. This should not
discourage you from trying Sqlite, of course.

-David

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