On 2006-06-07, Akim Demaille <akim(a)lrde.epita.fr> wrote: Mostly yeah. But isn't it a sufficient reason? :) It saves several temporary files under /tmp which can be several Mb (or even Gb if Micha is around) large which require a lot of time to be written/read/parsed. Generally speaking, the whole Stratego/XT bundle is going to work this way. ATM, pipelines in Stratego/XT are made using XTC, which is all about gluing components together. Basically, we have several tools designed to perform a very well defined task and these tools are called one after the other. However, for the time being, XTC components don't use real pipes (I mean: UNIX pipes), instead they use temporary files. So once a tool has finished its work, its output is written in a /tmp file which will be read by the next tool in the pipeline. That's the whole problem. These files under /tmp can be quite large and it's useless to have to write/read/parse them all over again many times in the pipeline. Instead what they're going to do from now on is that, each XTC tool will be self-contained in a separate library so that you can invoke them directly from your program. No more temporary files. And you will also benefit from all the strategies defined in these libraries. That's it. -- SIGOURE Benoit aka Tsuna _____ /EPITA\ Promo 2008.CSI Rock & tRoll