On 5/12/15, 5:59 AM, "Glenn Willianms" <i...@tinylion.co.uk> wrote:
>Thanks for the info > >:-) if only adobe had given it just one more year ay Well, I wouldn’t say that “there hasn’t been any work”. Many changes I’ve made to Falcon for the SWF output for FlexJS should have benefited Falcon's ability to generate SWFs for the current Flex SDK. Way back in October 2013, I got a large 20MB SWF to complete compilation of an existing code base and startup and show the right thing. Unofficial measurements at the time showed only 25% speed improvement, not 2x or better like many folks were hoping for. I think those findings killed some enthusiasm to replace MXMLC with Falcon. Sure, Falcon and Flex would be further along if Adobe spent more money and time on it, but the fact is, it wasn’t working as a business for Adobe. At least now, the future of this technology is not controlled by a corporation. It is up to the folks on these mailing lists. For the most part, you don’t have to be a compiler expert to work on Falcon. The kinds of bugs you’ll hit just need patience to find the right point in the code and get it to do something slightly different. Folks are welcome to try to use Falcon on their existing projects and file bugs. As Mike points out, if there turns out to be a bug that requires fixing the BURM, that will be a hard thing to fix, but so far, I haven’t hit one. The community could rise up and replace the BURM by creating a SWF backend for FalconJX. Honestly, I think it could perform even better than the BURM for the level of optimizations that are currently done by MXMLC. -Alex > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Schmalle [mailto:teotigraphix...@gmail.com] >Sent: 12 May 2015 13:28 >To: dev@flex.apache.org >Subject: Re: Falcon progress for as flex sdk > >I haven't been around for about 2 years, just started checking the >commits and things. It seems there really hasn't been any work on the SWF >Falcon compiler since about the time Gordon stopped committing changes to >MXML. > >I remember I spent a lot of time studying the code, most all classes I >studied and the BURM is just to complicated to just jump in and start >doing things. Unless you already have experience with that tech, it's >almost a full time job working/learning it. > >Actually, the BURM in FalconJS is what prompted me to write FalconJX, I >just didn't have enough time to learn JBurg and understand everything >that was going on. I spent less time writing the whole >walker/visitor/compiler framework then the time it would take me to learn >JBurg. :) > >I have a lot of experience with ANTLR and parser/lexers but that is only >half of the SWF compiler. > >Mike > >On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Glenn Willianms <i...@tinylion.co.uk> >wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> >> >> Just trying to catch up on what's been happening over the past few >> months here >> >> >> >> Has there been any progress on Flacon when it comes to standard flex >> projects? >> >> >> >> Just wanted an update on where we stand right now >> >> >> >> Thanks for every ones hard work here >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> glenn >> >> > > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2015.0.5863 / Virus Database: 4342/9755 - Release Date: 05/12/15 >
