[HN Gopher] Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster
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       Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster
        
       Author : vitaut
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-11-12 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | gnusi wrote:
       | That's awesome improvement!
        
       | jiehong wrote:
       | Great stuff!
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       | But, I'm afraid it will actually lead to even more heavily
       | templated C++ in a rebound effect!
        
       | wild_pointer wrote:
       | Impressive work! Also waiting for fine-grained caching:
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       | https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-an-llvm-cas-library-and...
        
       | reactordev wrote:
       | >Modern C++ codebases -- from browsers to GPU frameworks -- rely
       | heavily on templates, and that often means massive abstract
       | syntax trees.
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       | Symptom of a symptom. Templates are abhorrent abominations.
       | However, there's no way to do generics without them. It just
       | becomes a hairball mess at compile time... kudos for alleviating
       | some of the pain in waiting.
        
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