More on Clang

Nicolai Hähnle-Montoro nhaehnle at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 09:15:07 UTC 2013


Hey Olivier,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Olivier J. G. <olivier.jg at gmail.com> wrote:
> A: AST generation is really slow, and in order to be usable in KDevelop the
> ast has to be regenerated constantly, as you type. This is particularly
> problematic for code completion and quick-tip refactoring helpers, but would
> also represent a regression for highlighting.

I'm curious: doesn't Apple's IDE XCode use Clang as a backend? I was
under the impression that it does, and if that is true, then the XCode
developers must have solved that particular problem somehow.

Perhaps somebody who knows XCode can clarify?

Cheers,
Nicolai
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