It might be interesting if you have a very large application. Webtop should be large enough to see a speed improvement, especially if you have a notebook which is a few years old, and need to compile the app frequently. I'm too busy right now with the mobile stuff, if not I'd be testing that.
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting .... > The question in our case is how much time is spent in preprocessing vs the > actual > flex compilation; the incremental mode using fcsh should already help a lot > on startup > time for the flex compiler. But there might be some way to offload an > entire LZX app > compilation to a server. > > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Raju Bitter > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I came across this project today: HellFire Compiler Daemon, read more >> hear >> http://stopcoding.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/hfcd-pick-your-compiler-speed-how-about-10x/ >> >> >> HFCD enables you to compile your large Flex/AS3 app remotely on a >> powerful server, here's a quote from one of the more recent blog >> posts: "Recently I’ve received an email from a Flex developer. He told >> me that his development team has been using HFCD for Flex development. >> What impressed me was his team hardware setup. Basically, his team of >> developers connect Flex Builder running on their laptops to multiple >> instances of HFCD running on a powerful LAN server." >> >> And what a server that is: >> OS: Solaris 10 >> CPU: Dual quad-core Xeon 2.8ghz (two threads per core — OS reports 16 >> cores) >> Memory: 32GB >> Ethernet: 4 connected Ethernet connections (mutliplexed between Solaris >> Zones) >> >> Here is the performance speedup with HFCD in Flash Builder: >> Setup Number of >> Processors Build Time >> Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1 2 >> 35s >> Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1, HFCD 3 2 >> 24s >> Flex Builder 3, Flex 3.4.1, HFCD 3 4 >> 12s >> Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0 2 >> 12s >> Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0, HFCD 4 2 >> 7.7s >> Flash Builder 4, Flex 4.0.0, HFCD 4 4 >> 3.9s >> >> That might be an interesting approach for very large SWF10 apps, like >> Webtop. HFCD has Ant integration as well: >> http://bytecode-workshop.com/hfcd/doc/HFCD-Ant-Task-Language-Reference.pdf >> >> Some blog posts: >> http://stopcoding.wordpress.com/tag/hellfire-compiler-daemon/ >> > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected] > > >
