Hi Charlie,

 > Content: futurebasic_26309.ezm
 > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:40:16 -0400
 > From: Charlie Dickman <3tothe4th@...>
 > Subject: [FB^3] Pre-compilation
 > 
 > I realize that
 > 
 > 1) it's late in the game to bring this up (again?)
 > 
 > 2) It's not in the philosophy of FB^3
 > 
 > nonetheless...
 > 
 > Even though the FB^3 IDE is fast it becomes very tedious to
 > have to sit through repeated compilations while ALL of the
 > runtime is recompiled every time I change something in my code.
 > It may be a throwback idea but it sure would be nice if we
 > could keep the compiler's output object code, like was done
 > with FBII INCLUDEs, so that recompilation was only necessary
 > when something changes.
 > 
 > It would seem to me that a new type of project file that is
 > pre-compiled code could be added to FB^3 to accomplish this.
 > 
 > Charlie Dickman
 > 
 > 3tothe4th@...

It's surely NOT too late.
Your request is a subtle refinement of what we have.
And it seems reasonable to approach it after the 
straightforeward operation is perfect.

If anything the trouble comes from that subtlety.
FB2 had the feature but there were problems!!
Remember the many complaints that were solved by
recompiling ab initio.

We are in the frustrating position where we have 
FB^3 compiling several times as fast as FB2
AND taking several times as long to compile even 
a modest project. 

There's a real problem in that paradox!.

Cheers

Larry S