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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/overview.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/overview.md index af050a0e174..cc17eaa9e48 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/overview.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/overview.md @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ queries are cached on disk so that the compiler can tell which queries' results changed from the last compilation and only redo those. This is how incremental compilation works. -In principle, for the query-field steps, we do each of the above for each item +In principle, for the query-fied steps, we do each of the above for each item individually. For example, we will take the `HIR` for a function and use queries to ask for the `LLVM-IR` for that HIR. This drives the generation of optimized `MIR`, which drives the borrow checker, which drives the generation of `MIR`, and @@ -303,11 +303,11 @@ to remain to ensure that unreachable functions still have their errors emitted. [passes]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e69c7306e2be08939d95f14229e3f96566fb206c/compiler/rustc_interface/src/passes.rs#L791 Moreover, the compiler wasn't originally built to use a query system; the query -system has been retrofitted into the compiler, so parts of it are not query-field +system has been retrofitted into the compiler, so parts of it are not query-fied yet. Also, LLVM isn't our code, so that isn't querified either. The plan is to eventually query-fy all of the steps listed in the previous section, but as of <!-- date-check --> November 2022, only the steps between `HIR` and -`LLVM-IR` are query-field. That is, lexing, parsing, name resolution, and macro +`LLVM-IR` are query-fied. That is, lexing, parsing, name resolution, and macro expansion are done all at once for the whole program. One other thing to mention here is the all-important "typing context", |