[osflash] Know how many kb each class adds to the SWF when compiling with MTASC

[Steve Webster]

On 8/4/06, Ralf Bokelberg <ralf.bokelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does class size really help there?
>
> It helps to decide if it makes sense to put the classes in different
> swfs for example.
> Also it helps to decide if it is better to divide a large class into
> two or more classes.

Such decisions should probably be based on the source code and not the
compiled byte-code size.

As a general rule of thumb, it's likely that a class whose source code
is twice the size of another will produce twice as much bytecode.
Unless, of course, once of them has an insane amount of whitespace.

> > It sounds like what you actually want is a tool that generates a
> > dependency graph
>
> This could be useful too, but its the second step. First you need to
> know the size of a single class to be able to calculate the size of
> your graph.

This sounds much more useful to me as full dependancies aren't
immediately obvious by looking at the code.

Just my 2p.

Cheers,

Steve

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Steve Webster
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