Hi Ted, No media imports - just actionscript and mxml files. Files does seem to be the major factor in the speed - it states it is getting 546 files - there are maybe 40 in my project so i'm assuming it is extracting all the flex framework files every time it compiles?
thanks for the tips with compc - i haven't got round to putting in the media assets yet - i figured it'd slow compile times down so am going to skin the project right at the end... and will certainly look into putting them in a swc file. cheers, Al On 24 Mar 2006, at 14:36, Ted Patrick wrote: > Al, > > This actually looks to be more related to media imports. The 8458ms > time next to files should stick out. That looks like media > processing to me. In Flex 1.5, this aspect of compilation is the > most resource intensive. > > Are you: > > 1. Embeding Fonts > > 2. Embedding Images, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SWF > > 3. Embedding Audio > > The ASC compiler and MXMLC compiler are very fast but when tasked > with embedding images, font to glyph conversion, audio, it is > slower. This is actually one of the illusions of compiler > performance. MTASC and ASC are somewhat comparable ( ASC is faster > but very few have seen it standalone! ) but when you add media > encoding, MXML to AS translation, AS compilation to ABC, and > finally SWF assembly, MXMLC obviously takes longer. This is the > same exact logic in why Flash compilation times are much slower > than MTASC. Obviously when you must encode every single character > in a font into a glyph, encode images, and encode audio, > compilation will take exponentially longer. > > There is a trick here. You can use COMPC to precompile media assets > into SWC. The SWC format is directly injected into the SWF bytecode > and thus requires no compiler think time. Moving media compilation > to SWC speeds compiler time 10 fold. > > My 2 cents, > > Cynergy Systems, Inc. > Theodore Patrick > Sr. Consultant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel: 1.866.CYNERGY > http://www.cynergysystems.com > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Alisdair Mills >> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:39 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Mac Flex developing >> >> yeah... i add incremental but for some reason it still takes between >> 8 and 20 seconds. the output from mxmlc is as follows.... >> >> Files: 546 Time: 8458ms >> Linking... 100ms >> Optimizing... 901ms >> SWF Encoding... 180ms >> Persisting 114 compilation units... 160ms >> Total time: 12607ms >> >> am i doing something wrong? my syntax is as follows... mxmlc -- >> incremental=true -output=deploy/FeverPitch.swf src/FeverPitch.mxml. >> >> cheers, Al >> >> >> On 24 Mar 2006, at 05:32, Mike Chambers wrote: >> >>> Make sure you are doing incremental compiles by passing: >>> >>> --incremental=true >>> >>> on the command line. >>> >>> mike chambers >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> Alisdair Mills wrote: >>>> Mike, just out of interest... is there any way to get the SDK >>>> compiler to compile as quickly as the compiler in flex builder? >>>> Using >>>> flex builder beta 1 as a guide it would take 1 second or so in flex >>>> builder but up to 20 seconds with the command line mxmlc >>>> compiler... >>>> quite a difference. I was half way through developing an app with >>>> beta 1 on a mac (which worked - sort of - on os x eclipse) and >>>> since >>>> beta 2 it has got a whole lot tougher/slower. >>>> >>>> On 23 Mar 2006, at 22:25, Mike Chambers wrote: >>>> >>>>> fyi, we now have an SDK download for Windows, Mac and Linux: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm? >>>>> e=labs#flexsdk2 >>>>> >>>>> (no more having to copy from windows) >>>>> >>>>> mike chambers >>>>> >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>> Richard Leggett wrote: >>>>>> I didn't see whether you specified 1.X or 2.0, and I'm sure >>>>>> someone else >>>>>> will be better able to speak about Flex 1.X, but I might be >>>>>> able to >>>>>> offer some insights for Flex 2.0. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm a PC guy myself but my colleague is currently working on a >>>>>> Mac >>>>>> running Eclipse with the FlexBuilder 2 plug-ins (copied directly >>>>>> from a >>>>>> PC install). 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