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authorEnrico Tassi2013-12-19 11:07:55 +0100
committerEnrico Tassi2014-01-04 17:07:15 +0100
commit96dcc98b499a5c6ad3d327046825a8728a11e56e (patch)
tree9b8460acb12687be595c5146331fd2ba270a71ee /dev
parente3e257dd35b14420c0ca1aea801200f857c6394e (diff)
Aux_file: cache information at compile time for later (re)use
For a file dir/a.v the corresponding aux file dir/.a.aux can store arbitrary data. It maps a "Loc.t * string" (key) to a "string" (value). Pretty much anything can fit in this schema, but ATM I see only the following possible uses: 1) record inferred data, like the set of section variable used, so that one can later use this info to process proofs asynchronously (i.e. compute their discharged type without knowing the proof term). 2) record timings (how long it takes to build a proof term or check it), so that one can take smarter scheduling decisions 3) record a bloated proof trace for automatic tactics, so that one can replay it faster (a sort of cache). For that to be useful an Ltac API is required. The .aux file contains the path of the .v and its md5 hash. When loaded it defaults to the empty map is the file is not there or if the .v file changed. Not finding some data in the .aux file cannot be a failure, but finding it may help in many ways. The current file format is very simple but human readable. It is generated/parsed using printf/scanf and in particular the %S formatter for the value string. The file format is private to the Aux_file module: only an abstract interface is provided. The current file format is not robust in face of local changes. Any change invalidates the md5 hash (and the Loc.t is very likely to change too).
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