On 16/02/2012 21:25, Rui Silva wrote:
Though I'm generally available for any work that this group decides to undertake, I really do not see this as a viable solution. Do you truly believe that we (considering most of us are Flex developers with little or no expertise in compiler development) could come up with a better solution in less time than a team of professional compiler developers who have been working on it for some time now (even considering that this team has been drastically reduced)? If so, I'm obviously available to help out in any way I can. Best, Rui
Writing "a" compiler is easy, writing the flex compiler with all features is fairly difficult. However: There is one thing that the new Falcon compiler will not solve. It will not be written in AS3 or bytecode and therefore not be available directly in as3. I find that sub-optimal which is why I think its would be awesome to have one available written in AS3. If you reduce the amount of features that this compiler can deal with (for example: Compilation of Fonts, jps etc. ) then I see it possible to have one earlier than falcon. If its written in a way that it could leverage threads in a future version of flashplayer (or workers in JavaScript) then I see no reason why this should be significantly slower (at least for most operations). If we happen do some things more efficient by luck ... well then we are a lucky bunch I guess.
yours Martin.
