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Code Generation: Another Justification
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Justification for Code Generation |
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2003-11-14 19:17:24 |
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It's been a year since your posting but I could still find it!
Yes, we discovered exactly that: Code generation is the key for achieving performance and flexibility while maintaining a sensible software engineering environment.
The price: longer builds! The code generated was, at some point, 200K lines of code! And it was done usinga the Perl template toolkit.
We have a large automated underwriting system with millions of transactions monthly. The first use of code generator was for the purpose of generating a data model API to be used with our web-services. Now, we are guaranteed to have a standard data model what all components are compatible with.
Edward M Schwalb, Ph.D
VP Application Development
Artificial Intelligence Dpt.
Production Technologies
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