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But you want to share state and only update state incrementally on edit to get any reasonable level of performance for stuff like language server code analysis.

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I'm not sure what the performance overhead would be, but that state can easily be stored on disk.

I'd bet it's a lot harder to rework the compiler to update its state in place than it is to rework it to free memory.

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