[FALCON] Performance expectations (was Re: first message in the community)

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

On 2/4/13 9:16 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <ni...@spoon.as> wrote:

 
> There is a lot of work being done with a new compiler, known as "Falcon".
>  This is the next generation compiler that was started by Adobe and donated
> to us midway through development.  It is not 100% there yet, but if you
> read this mailing list, there are lots of strides being made in a short
> amount of time that will make it complete.  This is the new compiler that
> Adobe was saying was going to be 5x faster (our tests are not as
> optimistic)... 
Gordon might have better information, but he's on vacation for a while,
IIRC.

Back when Adobe first talked about Falcon (before November 2011), numbers
like 5x were discussed, but I believe they were for incremental compilation
when integrated into Flash Builder.  Adobe did not commit to integrating the
Apache version of Falcon into Flash Builder, so our version of Falcon may
never be used for incremental compiles so we may not be able to get that
kind of compiler performance.  So let's lower expectations on performance.
I think I heard 2x was possible in some non-incremental situations, but that
is old information.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui