Hello again,
I've looked at what gets generated by a ./generate build of my
application and I think there is room for much improvement. Is any of
the following (sorted from easy to hard) planned?
Should do (IMO)
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- loader code optimization: the "part loader" code, seem to not be
optimized at all: it contains comments, indentation, etc... Besides,
it "leaks", the global variable "isMshtml" (ie a variable not in the
qooxdoo namespace): is it intended or an oversight?
- better resource key names to save space.
Currently, the way to represent combined images is very wasteful:
Couldn't this:
"qx/decoration/Modern/shadow/shadow-small-r.png": [5, 136, "png",
"qx", "qx/decoration/Modern/shadow-small-lr-combined.png", 0, 0],
be transformed to something like this:
"qx/decoration/Modern/shadow/": {
"shadow-small-r.png": [5, 136, "png", "qx", "small-lr-combined.png", 0, 0],
The code would probably be very slightly more complex, but it would be
worth it IMO.
- better translations key names to save space
As for resource names, it is currently very wasteful and almost ridiculous:
Couldn't this
"cldr_month_abbreviated_11": "Nov", "cldr_month_abbreviated_10": "Oct", ...
be changed to something like this:
"month": {
"abbreviated": {
10: "Oct",
11: "Nov",
...
And in this case, even the code would probably be simpler than currently.
- newline stripping
I think this used to be possible with the 0.7 build system, but I
can't find a way to enable this in 0.8.
- not "optimizing" string literals that are used only once.
There are lot of those and this waste space and possibly a bit of load time.
Could do but probably hard
======================
- optimization of protected/public method and variable names, a
- optimization of class names.
- removal of unused code (methods).
Dreamland
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- automatic inlining of code if space is saved. Could possibly also
add a configurable speed/space tradeoff factor: "inline even if
resulting code is X larger".
This would save quite some space *and* make the code run faster.
--
Gaëtan de Menten
http://openhex.org
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