Compile-Time Evaluation

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: architecture:compile-time-evaluation

Severity: contextual

Scope: compiler, build

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that computes values, checks or generated code during the build, so the work and its errors happen before runtime.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Introspection and before Runtime Code Generation.

Requires

• Compile-Time Inputs

Reinforces

• Optimization
• Type Safety

Enables

• Early Error Detection

In tension with

• Build Complexity
• Runtime Dynamic Evaluation

Tensions

• Compile-Time Evaluation / Build Complexity
• Compile-Time Evaluation / Runtime Dynamic Evaluation

Violated by

• Deferred Static Check

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

Refactors

• Runtime Code Generation

Linked from

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Severity levels
• The resolutions