For those interested, there are also implementations of cdb in java:
<a href="http://www.strangegizmo.com/products/sg-cdb/" rel="nofollow">http://www.strangegizmo.com/products/sg-cdb/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/sunnygleason/g414-hash" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sunnygleason/g414-hash</a>
Okay, semi-related:<p>Why is the speed of the Go compiler so important? Why not just use an incremental compiler? Why the hell would you want to recompile a 100k+ line program when there are known better alternatives?<p>Just doesn't make sense to me.