On Tuesday, August 14, 2012, Gordon Smith wrote:

> Hi, Justin.
>
> To me that sounds like a kludge with little benefit and presumably worse
> performance than either compiler by itself. I take it that you are unhappy
> with the decision to compile MXML directly to ABC, for maximum performance,
> if it means losing -keep? If so, you could work on a alternate compilation
> path for MXML in Falcon that involved either real or fake (i.e., not
> actually compiled) AS. What is the main problem that you use -keep to
> solve? Perhaps Falcon's option that displays MXML syntax trees could be
> another solution for you.
>
> - Gordon
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 6:26 PM, "Justin Mclean" 
> <jus...@classsoftware.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Falcon right now is an ActionScript compiler with limited MXML support,
> so
> >> right now you can't simply change the old compiler by the new one.
> >
> > Probably some reason to why we cant do this but couldn't we use the
> current compiler to turn MXML into AS (-keep of top of head) and then use
> Falcon to compile that AS?
> >
> > Justin
>

I think Justin's looking for a stop gap solution for compiling MXML with
Falcon. At least that's what I read from it.

-omar

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