IMO, the whole point of any framework is to trade-off size and performance for the convenience of getting your app up and running faster. Any code that is reconfigurable/reusable carries overhead in some way. We use PAYG to reduce some of that overhead, but nothing will ever be as fast and small as hand-tuned optimized code. Flex Helloworld was 128K. Royale Helloworld has grown to 80K. It was 20K early on. Everyone can write a custom HelloWorld in JS in much less than 1K.
But generally, folks don't want to spend the time optimizing until too late, hoping they can get up and running because there is enough speed and performance in the network and runtimes. Most of the time there is enough speed and performance. With Flex more apps ran into trouble With Royale fewer will. There is no right answer. Use binding if you are in a hurry. Use direct assignment if you have the time. My 2 cents, -Alex PS: We need to look at the 80K in Helloworld some day and see how much we can cut out. It was 50K recently IIRC. You can presume that almost all of it is just-in-case instead of PAYG. On 10/9/18, 12:26 AM, "Olaf Krueger" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, an application framework has to provide binding these days but I sometimes think that this binding thing is a bit overrated. Even if it's convenience for the developer to just add some binding expressions there are a lot of cases where we can just do a direct assignment with one line of code. With Flex we've learned to use Binding carefully because of the overhead. Thanks to Alex explanation [1] we've learned that the binding implementation in Royale is more lightweight than in Flex. However, I am just interested in your opinion about binding and whether we should apply the same recommendations for Royale as for Flex or if the Royale implementation is lightweight enough to always use binding without any concerns. Thanks, Olaf [1] https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2FRetrieving-a-collection-of-data-and-reassign-the-collection-to-show-in-a-component-with-Binding-tp6722p6735.html&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C6d19326e5c674d0449b208d62db8895e%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636746667943432839&sdata=T6ato%2F6E0UzyHor992JwJ4qrZo7jvTON5vgTo%2BN93Oo%3D&reserved=0 -- Sent from: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-royale-development.20373.n8.nabble.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C6d19326e5c674d0449b208d62db8895e%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636746667943432839&sdata=sHsjuIjb7VTzywlNBzCXj4wgvq2YxtwFVtMyvfoF5mk%3D&reserved=0
