There are things to like about this implementation and things to
dislike.
Things to like:
- It works.
- The defs are baked into the wordlist.
Cons:
- The def bodies are built at start time by parsing strings. it would
be nice to somehow generate initializer literals if possible. But
would that mess up the garbage collector?
- It requires manual labor to update the defs when defs.txt changes. It
would be nice to have a solution that *make* can use.
We check terms to see if they're in the wordlist, if they are we reuse
the string from the wordlist instead of allocating a new one.
(I've always wanted to use Gperf so I'm pretty stoked about this!)
Simon Forman