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I'd love to see this re-implemented in nim, possibly using https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy to interoperate with the clang python bindings.
(refs https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7230#45673)

Continuing on my libtorch wrapper at https://github.com/SciNim/minitorch

I'm currently a bit below 16% through in 18 min with 8.5GB consumed.

Regarding speed

I think the libclang parsing can be put on multiple process communicating via pickle?

Regarding memory usage

Is it necessary to have the whole graph in memory at one point? Otherwise we can process as soon as something is parsed. Alternatively, pickling can help as well.

Regarding priorities

I expect this tool is target at large libraries that would be impractical to port or wrap manually like PyTorch, OpenCV, VTK.
I think solving the memory consumption is more important than speed as we can always leave it running over the night if it's slow, but we have no alternative if it's too memory hungry.