Re: [RFC] Distributed data processing for SmPL scripts

From: Markus Elfring

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 04:36:50 EST


>> Some developers got used to tools which support distributed data processing
>> for compilation tasks.
>>
>> Examples:
>> https://www.distcc.org/
>> https://github.com/icecc/icecream
>
> Maybe such things can just be used off the shelf, since Coccinelle can be
> invoked from make.

Did you notice how such development tools were implemented?

How would you distinguish single programs from a service-oriented architecture?


> In any case, I have no intention of working on this.

Under which circumstances would you become more interested in related topics?

How many components can eventually be extracted from the OCaml (and Rust)
implementation for better reuse with other programming languages?


> If you want to
> contribute something, please go ahead.

I would appreciate additional development resources also for advanced
source code analyses and transformations.

Regards,
Markus