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On 12/13/07 2:39 AM, Ollie Wild wrote:

> The lto branch is already doing this, so presumably that discussion
> was resolved (Maybe someone in the know should pipe up.).

Yes, streaming the IL to/from disk is a resolved issue.

> I believe a stable representation is an explicit non-goal of the LTO
> project (Perhaps that was the "resolution" of the discussion above.).

Right.  The on-disk representation will tend to be unstable.


Diego.