>From memory, Harbs (and I have been absent for a while so it might not be accurate), it is important for runtime type checks against interfaces, maybe other things, but yes it is part of the support for reflection too (the more detailed reflection data is the extra weight there).
btw, I do hope to get active again within the next month or so. I was working on constants propagation (for primitive types - numeric/bool/string) and had made some progress on that before I had to give my attention to other things. On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Harbs <[email protected]> wrote: > ROYALE_CLASS_INFO is something which is output for every class and not > optimized away by the Google Closure Compiler. I’m trying to understand why > and whether there’s some way this can be optimized. > > 1. What prevents the compiler from removing this property? It’s not > @exported. > 2. Why is it being prevented from being optimized away? I see it’s used in > 10 different files. It’s obviously being assumed to exist for various > reflection tasks. Is part of the problem that the compiler might not be > able to infer the type of an instance? > 3. Why is “names” an array? ActionScript does not support multiple > inheritance. > 4. Would it be less code to use some kind of ClassInfo object or utility > function rather than use object literals for every single class? It feels > like yes. > > Harbs
