At 12:59 AM +0100 2/20/06, Stefan Pantke wrote:
Am 20.02.2006 um 00:28 schrieb Dario Guerrero:
I think that all of us will pay with pleasure for a version with an
optimized compiler
Actually, this is only possible, if you prepare nice abstract syntax
trees and some kind of intermediate code representation.
Hopefully, RS has prepared everything that abstract and well
structured. If not, we might see no changes the next few years.
And, well, since compiled apps get bigger and bigger, I
wonder, if RS has such a good foundation.
It does. Compiled apps have not been getting "bigger and bigger".
They've generally been getting somewhat smaller in each release, but
they took a step in the other direction in RB2005 because of some
changes necessary for making REALbasic compile in REALbasic. (As an
added bonus, these changes also mean that all methods are now
virtual, including those of built-in and plugin classes. And yes,
apps are somewhat bigger too. Deal with it.)
But getting back to the point... the new compiler's architecture was
designed from the ground up to support both cross-platform and
platform-specific optimizations, and some of those are already in
place. This is quite unlike the original compiler, where such
changes were more or less impossible.
Best,
- Joe
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Joseph J. Strout
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