I develop multiple websites inside a single framework, where each website has several client apps and one server app; when deploying onto development or live servers, it is essential to delete the generator cache on the target machine before recompiling because otherwise the generator will often screw up the compiled code. Recompiling a single app including populating the cache takes over 3 minutes, and deploying to a server requires regenerating all apps. We generate the apps on demand to lessen the load but it’s still not great.
Also, because developing inside a framework and having server and client apps that work together, changing code sometimes requires re-running the generator for 2 or more apps - this is a pain because they’re in different directories, and having a permanent “watchdog” auto-generate does not work well because generator.py has such a heavy impact on the system. I have written an esprima based version of generator.py that can build an entire app including analyse resources in around 7 seconds without a cache (around 150ms with a populated cache) so I know that massive speed up is possible - but I have not had the time to make it release worthy otherwise it have been a contrib a long time ago (and more recently the core dev team have said they’re doing something similar anyway). Regards John On 10 Sep 2014, at 12:38, Fritz Zaucker <zauc...@oetiker.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, John Spackman wrote: > >> On the backend and for ?thick? web clients the generator is essential >> (although slow), although I?m not sure I agree that a lot of code is >> unused. > > Why does speed matter here? I usually develop with the source version and > only rarely (when adding a new class or resource) run the generator. > Especially since source-hybrid became available. > > I usually spend a lot more time on implementing/testing/debugging ... > > Cheers, > Fritz > > -- > Oetiker+Partner AG tel: +41 62 775 9903 (direct) > Fritz Zaucker +41 62 775 9900 (switch board) > Aarweg 15 +41 79 675 0630 (mobile) > CH-4600 Olten fax: +41 62 775 9905 > Schweiz web: www.oetiker.ch > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
