Im making a modular program, and it supports dynamic compilation of source files in the plugin directory.
What I would like to do, to speed up loading times, is save compiled assemblies to a separate folder.
When my program loads, and comes across a source file to compile, i would like it to check if there is an already compiled assembly, and use it IF the source file has not been changed since then. If the source file is changed, then re-compile and override the saved assembly.
My question to you is, what would be an effective way, to track which source file belongs to which assembly, and an effective way to track whether a source file has been changed since last load or not.
Change Tracking: Keep MD5 / CRC Hashes of the source files on record & Last Modified date, correlate the two to determine if the files have changed.
As for source->assembly, I suggest convention over configuration.