That’s interesting, thanks Alex. Makes me feel more like taking a look.
I still have several projects that I maintain and some of them are still having new modules or features booked in by the clients. So I'm still working with the SDK daily some months. It really is such a comfortable place to work and I get so much done so quickly for them. Are there still many of us out there with active projects, be they just being maintained or actively developed? I sometimes feel a little alone, but I assume there must be quite a few people with flex projects that are still live. The clients are really happy with what they have too, and they don’t see any need to change tech. Thanks for all the work you guys put in glenn -----Original Message----- From: Michael Schmalle [mailto:teotigraphix...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 May 2015 14:46 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Falcon progress for as flex sdk @Alex, I didn't mean to take away from your work. I only meant "explicit" work mainly targeting SWF, as you said, your work has been related to FlexJS. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 5/12/15, 5:59 AM, "Glenn Williams" <i...@tinylion.co.uk> wrote: > > >Thanks for the info > > > >:-) if only adobe had given it just one more year ay > > Well, I wouldn’t say that “there hasn’t been any work”. Many changes > I’ve made to Falcon for the SWF output for FlexJS should have > benefited Falcon's ability to generate SWFs for the current Flex SDK. > > Way back in October 2013, I got a large 20MB SWF to complete > compilation of an existing code base and startup and show the right > thing. Unofficial measurements at the time showed only 25% speed > improvement, not 2x or better like many folks were hoping for. I > think those findings killed some enthusiasm to replace MXMLC with Falcon. > > > Sure, Falcon and Flex would be further along if Adobe spent more money > and time on it, but the fact is, it wasn’t working as a business for Adobe. > At least now, the future of this technology is not controlled by a > corporation. It is up to the folks on these mailing lists. > > For the most part, you don’t have to be a compiler expert to work on > Falcon. The kinds of bugs you’ll hit just need patience to find the > right point in the code and get it to do something slightly different. > Folks are welcome to try to use Falcon on their existing projects and file > bugs. > > As Mike points out, if there turns out to be a bug that requires > fixing the BURM, that will be a hard thing to fix, but so far, I haven’t hit > one. > The community could rise up and replace the BURM by creating a SWF > backend for FalconJX. Honestly, I think it could perform even better > than the BURM for the level of optimizations that are currently done by MXMLC. > > -Alex > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Michael Schmalle [mailto:teotigraphix...@gmail.com] > >Sent: 12 May 2015 13:28 > >To: dev@flex.apache.org > >Subject: Re: Falcon progress for as flex sdk > > > >I haven't been around for about 2 years, just started checking the > >commits and things. It seems there really hasn't been any work on the > >SWF Falcon compiler since about the time Gordon stopped committing > >changes to MXML. > > > >I remember I spent a lot of time studying the code, most all classes > >I studied and the BURM is just to complicated to just jump in and > >start doing things. Unless you already have experience with that > >tech, it's almost a full time job working/learning it. > > > >Actually, the BURM in FalconJS is what prompted me to write FalconJX, > >I just didn't have enough time to learn JBurg and understand > >everything that was going on. I spent less time writing the whole > >walker/visitor/compiler framework then the time it would take me to > >learn JBurg. :) > > > >I have a lot of experience with ANTLR and parser/lexers but that is > >only half of the SWF compiler. > > > >Mike > > > >On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Glenn Willianms > ><i...@tinylion.co.uk> > >wrote: > > > >> Hi folks > >> > >> > >> > >> Just trying to catch up on what's been happening over the past few > >> months here > >> > >> > >> > >> Has there been any progress on Flacon when it comes to standard > >> flex projects? > >> > >> > >> > >> Just wanted an update on where we stand right now > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks for every ones hard work here > >> > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> > >> > >> glenn > >> > >> > > > > > > > >----- > >No virus found in this message. > >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >Version: 2015.0.5863 / Virus Database: 4342/9755 - Release Date: > >05/12/15 > > > > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5863 / Virus Database: 4342/9769 - Release Date: 05/13/15
