Right,
Yeah, comparing the old MXMLC compiler to Falcon MXMLC code base is
like going from a stone cave to a highrise building in terms of
engineering.
It uses JFlex to create the tokenizer so there is not lexer from antlr.
Anyway, others... I am not saying ditch work that has been done on
FalconJS and what it does, I'm going to experiment with Jangaroo and
there YEARS of development to see what I might come up with as far as
JS generation.
Besides in the end, there could always be "options". I want to be able
to work on coding something, this I can get right to work trying out
some ideas.
As with GCC, I haven't read enough about it but, sounds like I will
need to research it as well.
Mike
Quoting Frank Wienberg <fr...@jangaroo.net>:
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information about the Flex compiler is surely outdated.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-
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