>>> What's so horrid about css to bss compiling? >> >> A) It's broken >> B) What's the point? >> >> Not trying to be unduly critical but is it for some performance gain or >> something? Surely the load time is minimal. Given that I have a dozen XML >> config files, a handful of property files and a thousand FXML files that are >> being loaded by my app it seems like a whole lot of extra complexity and >> space for bugs to crawl in for no gain. Maybe I'm missing some benefit of >> this? > > The benefit is performance. It is much faster to deserialize the binary > format than to invoke the parser.
And we're talking orders of magnitude here. And don't forget about iOS / Android / PI / Beagle / and friends. We didn't do bss because we thought it was cool, I can promise you that. Neither are we looking at compiling FXML into class files (RT-23527) for the fun of it ;-).
