I don't know the code that well, but the swd part always surprised me. Old flash swfs had swd files, but I didn't think Flex SWFs did.
On 1/23/14 9:43 AM, "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I noticed some old code, unused code path, old coding pratices in FDB and >more important, it is very slow relative to the FB debugging experience >(FDB: 1mn30s FB: 8s on my large company app to stop at the 1st breakpoint >set in my runtime module), after a talk with Alexander and having dug >into the code and done some experiments, I would conclude the >waitForMetaData() function is not needed anymore, this function basically >was waiting until each swf was loading info.isPopulated() up to 80 * >250ms = ~20s to be sure the metadata of the Function infos have been >processed, from my experiements, there's no needs anymore for such a >wait, somewhere else in the code, I can read, "if we are a avm+ engine >then we don't wait for the swd to load" and "added by mmorearty on 9/5/05 >for RSL debugging" in DManager.java when getting the Message >DMessage.InSwfInfo it considers the swf is completely loaded >info.setPopulated(); > >I don't pretend to understand everything in those classes but my guesses >meet my experiments. >Now, the waiting time in FDB / IntelliJ is the same than in FB, meaning >divided by more than 11 in my case. > >Does someone know more about the player mechanism to populate the >Function metadatas ? > >I'm about to clean my changes, open a ticket and propose this modified >FDB for testing, any objections ? > >Thanks, >Frédéric THOMAS
