Depending on the level of the performance penalty, loading class on demand is much better than downloading all the application on start up, as GWT does. ---- Another advantage of generate JS from compiled code is that one can write a lib and don't have to make the sources available for users.
2008/8/25 Maxim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Aug 25, 7:46 am, Arthur Kalmenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > compiles statically typed languages. A lot of the GWT optimizations > > rely on types being known at compile time and the removal of > > Reflections, these two properties are fundamental in most dynamic > > languages and would thus make it impossible to optimize code the > > resulting JS the way the GWT compiler does. > > As I understand from: > > http://livelabs.com/volta/docs/issues/ > "At run time a Volta application downloads many files from the server, > one for each class that is used. The classes are loaded lazily, i.e. > not downloaded until they are needed..." > > they do not need "by size" optimization - they load only those classes > which are really used. > > From other side, loading class-by-class can seriously affect > perfomance ... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
