Wouldn't' binary extensions make them platform dependent, or could they be
compiled down to some byte code all versions of chrome/chromium could
interpret?

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM, sebastian.zim <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
> 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?
> >
>


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