Extensions with precompiled scripts in them has advantages other than load time. It would allow developers to hide the source code from users, which could be important in an extension which encrypts passwords, for instance. Anyway, I think that it would make a noticeable difference to the time it takes chrome to load.
On Aug 23, 4:12 pm, Uriel <[email protected]> wrote: > I see zero point in this. How insanely huge is your extension that > load time is an issue at all? > > Even with dozens of extensions I doubt this would be even barely > possible to measure, and the extra complexity involved would add costs > of is own. > > uriel > > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Aaron Boodman<[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is a good idea, and definitely something we've thought about > > before. We don't want to get too far down in optimizations before > > having the features working, but it would be something to keep in mind > > in the future. > > > - a > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:06 AM, > > sebastian.zim<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If you could compile scripts in an extension when it was being packed > >> and the store the files as machine code that could really speed up the > >> extension loading time. If you think that installing scripts in > >> machine code is of questionable security then we could compile the > >> scripts as the extension installs and the store them on the computer > >> as machine code (I don't think it is a security concern anyway because > >> the extension process is sandboxed). > > >> What do you think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
