Re: [Vala] "precompiled" vapis

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 12:20 +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, pancake <pancake 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