Is it feasible to add special-case compiler (and linker) support for very quick processing of changes mentioned in initial posts of Incremental linker #1626, i.e. changes to literals and source code formatting?

#1626 (comment)

ramnivas April 1 2015
The change I made was a trivial one ("foo" -> "fooo")
japgolly April 1 2015
Me too This is my output from after just adding a newline to a file:

#1626 (comment)

easel
That's a one-character change to a string constant

Such mechanism would allow for some impressive demos (probably important to get a good opinion from newcomers and commentators), but otherwise wouldn't be universally useful.

Originally posted by @tarsa in #1626 (comment)