On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 12:20 +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > > I was playing around gtk and curses and noticed a huge different in compile > > times > > which I think it is caused because of the size of gtk+-2.0.vapi compared to > > curses.vapi. > > > > It will be nice to be able to precompile those .vapis in a binary form, so > > Vala can > > directly load the AST instead of having to parse it. > > > > What do you think about it? > > > > Switching to gir might speed up things, especially if vala supports > the typelib format. > > I would go into that direction instead, if it's possible.
As far as I can tell, parsing itself does not appear to be the limiting factor, creating and resolving the AST is. I have some ideas how to improve the situation by lazily creating the AST, however, bug fixing appears to be more important right now. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
