Am 01.09.2005 um 08:32 schrieb Brent Pinkney:
Hi,
Does anyone else think the Full Closure Compiler is a priority for 3.9 ?
For me, yes. I'm slowly working on it, looks quite promising. The plan is to
have the new compiler optionally available quite soon.
Then this needs a quite hard testing phase, as it's a real critical part of the infrastructure.
This compiler can create both old-style blocks and closures, and it's easy to turn
it off completely and just use the old one.
I'm now working on getting all the infrastructure into 3.9 (merge the overrrides, add the code
needed for the closures-runtime code...). When that's done, the newcompiler will
be a module: drop-in, easy to load and unload, no patch needed.
It should be made clear that the closure runtime would only be used when compiling
code with the new compiler in closure-mode, so this change will have no impact at
all for performance or stability.
Traits and what-not are nice but a solidly engineered Comnpiler is IMHO more important.