What is difference between Incremental Compile and Full Compile?

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• Moksh
  SRF size is more when we do an Incremental Compile as compared to Full Compile. Could someone please explain why is that so ?
• neel
  You need to follow siebelunleashed more regularly :)
  
  this post has the answer to your question
  http://siebelunleashed.com/understanding-srf-file/
• Raju
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• sakthi
  HI....LET bring it out with some examples.... difference between a full compiler and a incermental compiler is Eg:
  SRF File: We do an Incremental compile on an existing SRF file and Full Compile results in creation of a New SRF file.
  
  what a incremental compiler will do what is it?
  
  Most of the computer-aided software development system includes programs to implement edit, compile, link and run sequences, all from memory, at very high speed. The compiler operates on an incremental basis, line-by-line, so if only one line is changed in an edit session, then only that line need be recompiled if no other code is affected. Scanning is done incrementally, and the resulting token list saved in memory to be used again where no changes are made. All of the linking tables are saved in memory so there is no need to generate link tables for increments of code where no changes in links are needed. The parser is able to skip lines or blocks of lines of source code which haven't been changed; for this purpose, each line of source text in the editor has a change-tag to indicate whether this line has been changed, and from this change-tag information a clean-lines table is built having a clean-lines indication for each line of source code, indicating how many clean lines follow the present line. All of the source code text modules, the token lists, symbol tables, code tables and related data saved from one compile to another are maintained in virtual memory rather than in files so that speed of operation is enhanced. Also, the object code created is maintained in memory rather than in a file, and executed from this memory image, to reduce delays.
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  regards...
  sakthi
• Tonylmiles
  Incremental compiles are fine for local db work but always do a full compile on the dev server at the end of the day (or whenever development is finished). But NEVER put an incrementally compiled SRF into a production environment.