The perl code is the upstream webkit's IDL compiler (but heavily modified for v8). It reads in the IDL files and generates the .h / .cpp files that are the actual binding code. It would be nice to rewrite this, but it would be a lot of work and also would need coordination upstream.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brett Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, but you'd still have the slowness of spawing perl hundreds of >> times. I'm not sure that would speed up the build at all (though it >> would improve the dependency management). > > Perhaps we've outgrown perl :-). I haven't looked at what the perl > code does (I've been willfully ignoring v8, since it has been "just > working" :-)), but is it something that a chunk of C++ linked against > PCRE and knows how to iterate directories and stat file times could > do? > > --Amanda > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
