Code that ties up the compiler

[Andrew Thompson]

Long ago, I saw a piece of code that - when you went to compile it -
took a *very* long time to complete. It had something to do with
nested classes, AFAIR.

I was wondering if modern javac had improved the situation on
compiling such code, but I cannot recall the exact code, and cannot
find references to it.

Does anybody know the type of code that does/did occupy the compiler
for great lengths of time? I'm pretty sure it was less than 100 lines
of code.

 

[Roedy Green]

Does anybody know the type of code that does/did occupy the compiler
for great lengths of time? I'm pretty sure it was less than 100 lines
of code.

have a look at the code for AmericanTax. There are a number of tables
it has to construct and it seems to take forever.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/products1.html#AMERICANTAX

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