On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Michael Schmalle <apa...@teotigraphix.com>wrote:
> I bet if I had some time I could port some of your generation code using > the Falcon AST. Mike, that would be the way to go! I believe every word you say about the Falcon compiler, since my information about the Flex compiler is surely outdated. I guess they were not using ANTLR back then and the whole architecture has been cleaned up in the meantime. We wanted to have had a closer look recently, but honestly we did not know where to start. Sounds to me like in a common effort, it should be possible to join Falcon and Jangaroo's AST-based JS code generation! Wow! Concerning GCC, it is said to have the best compression factor in the market when using "advanced optimizations", which only work when providing the correct type hints, so we would have to generate these like Bernd proposed on his FalconJS blog. And GCC has some real cool features like it can output JavaScript source maps<http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/>, which again is the optimal way to support debugging generated JS code directly in the browser. However, for this feature, I would not run the generated JS code through GCC, but experimented with reusing their Java library for creating the source maps directly during code generation (this is on a branch called "source-maps" in the jangaroo-tools github project). -Frank-
