From: Web DoubleFx [mailto:webdoubl...@hotmail.com] Sent: 12 January 2012 10:59
> Ok, nothing is perfect but in this case, on the AS3, the implementation of certain > features would be more than well comed to believe the users including myself, > remains to be seen how this would impact on performences, once things clear, > the community could decide if such an implementation would be beneficial or not, > it is what I say, I'm not saying that the language should be modeled on Java or another, > but some features can be good to be taken. Makes sense. As for performance issues, that's easy to predict. If we just want compile-time support for enums, private constructors, abstract methods and classes and the like, then none of them will have a significant impact on runtime performance. All will impact (at least slightly) on compilation times. Similarly, if we want runtime checking, then they'll have runtime performance impacts. I think all of: compiler-supported metadata, enums, private constructors, abstract classes and generics would be easy to implement, as none require special opcodes or do anything tricky with the VM. Other things (such as method overloading and multiple inheritance/traits) would be impractical to implement as the VM doesn't support them. Frustratingly though, until we get our hands on the source if Falcon compiler, knowing the scope of work of these tasks is difficult. David.
