Martin Schulze

Issue #444 might be solved with this one as well

> I think that adding an --dump-short option to glretrace, to tell it not to dump huge/ sounds good for starters. The 2nd time requests a state dump, the option...

I am sorry if you felt I was offended, I was just genuinely interested. If you have any problems with the current version of Templar then please open a new...

@wmamrak I second all of that. After having spent some time on the loading code in Templar I think we should give the files some version information. This would make...

> [...] there could be a version number, and possibly a DTD as well. > Everything that gives a better understanding of the format would be good. > All the...

I must agree with @wmamrak: > I would keep the tracer simple (not that it is overcomplicated), i.e. I would provide one, simple, easy to parse format without any human-legibility...

I also think protobuf is the way to go. Regarding the file size: I think one of the biggest cost savers would be to only reference the file and not...

> > Since we don't need human readability we could use the mangled symbol names which should be shorter. > > I don't think that's a good idea. You are...

> Also, I have never encountered a file-format that was friendly to random-access operations. Have you? I have but they were designed specifically for that purpose, after all they were...

As we both said there is not much use in dumping the AST. The only goal is to reduce the file size so I would use an off the shelf...