Re: [Sbcl-devel] determinism in fasls

[Faré <fa...@gm...>]

2009/10/8 Tobias C. Rittweiler <tc...@fr...>:
>> 2009/10/6 Faré <fa...@gm...>:
>> Considering that compiling with debug 0 seems to eliminate the tag,
>> and seeing a start-time field in source-info, I suspect that said
>> source-info is the source of the non-determinism I am observing. Is
>> this start-time field ever useful to anyone? Can we just get rid of
>> it?
>
> It's used by SBCL's swank backend for determining the right source
> context even after a file was interactively modified since the last
> compilation.
>
How exactly does the time tag help you? Are you just comparing for equality?
And what do you do in case of inequality? Could you do with the sxhash
of (cons source optimization-settings) instead?

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