Some notes from the adobe forum on this, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/487200
I'll file a JIRA bug for tracking this issue On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]>wrote: > That would be the new bidirectional text layout libraries. We had to add a > TextField work-alike to support bidirectional text input/output. They use > the new Text Layout Framework (TLF) libraries in flex, and they are being > statically linked in now, the culprit is this line in the call to the flex > compiler: > > > -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries > > I read in the flex docs that if we don't link statically, the Flash > runtime should be making a number of helpful efforts > to locate the TLF libraries; if they are not linked statically, it looks > for them on the server, and if they are not found there > it is supposed to try adobe's web site I believe. I wasn't able to get the > dynamic linking to work for some reason when I implemented the bidi text > stuff this summer, but > that bloat of the object file is really pretty severe, we need to get the > runtime linking to work. > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Raju Bitter < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Inspecting the library.swf inside the SWC file, I noticed that for 4.9.0 >> there are the following components added: >> ContainerController >> TextContainerManager >> TextFlow >> TextFlowLine >> >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Raju Bitter < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What is the reason for the dramatic file size increase for the LFC10 SWC >>> between 4.8.1 and 4.9.0? >>> http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?p=47079#post47079 >>> >>> I did a test with 4.8.1 and 4.9.0, using this LZX code: >>> <canvas width="100%" height="100%" proxied="false"> >>> </canvas> >>> >>> File sizes are: >>> 4.8.1/SWF8: 120kb >>> 4.8.1/SWF10: 120kb >>> >>> 4.9.0/SWF8: 120kb >>> 4.9.0/SWF10: 276kb >>> >>> 4.8.1 LFC10.swc: 243,196 bytes (uncompressed) >>> 4.9.0 LFC10.swc: 669,301 bytes (uncompressed) >>> >>> That means, the LFC SWC library has more than doubled in size from 4.8.1 >>> to 4.9.0. >>> >>> - Raju >>> >> >> > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected] > > > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [email protected]
