Does Flash Really Suck This Much?
Jun. 11th, 2004 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, the other day I downloaded a flash that I don't pretend to understand since it's in Japanese and way too fast and uses a much larger vocabulary than what I've covered in Lesson 1-29 so far. But it was fun and the tune was catchy
Out of curiosity, I turned my attention to disassembling the flash and examining the contents and I discovered, to my horror, that the flash was full of jpegs and pngs that never appear in the actual video. It seems to me that the Flash compiler that Macromedia ships will blindly accept anything you add to the manifest regardless of your actual use of it anywhere in the driver script.
That's ridiculous. Especially since most modern compilers know how to dike out unused code; it should be obvious to a decent compiler, especially one that has to residence the entire object in RAM at compile time, that there are objects in the source tree that never get exercised, and should not be included in the distribution.
Out of curiosity, I turned my attention to disassembling the flash and examining the contents and I discovered, to my horror, that the flash was full of jpegs and pngs that never appear in the actual video. It seems to me that the Flash compiler that Macromedia ships will blindly accept anything you add to the manifest regardless of your actual use of it anywhere in the driver script.
That's ridiculous. Especially since most modern compilers know how to dike out unused code; it should be obvious to a decent compiler, especially one that has to residence the entire object in RAM at compile time, that there are objects in the source tree that never get exercised, and should not be included in the distribution.
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Date: 2004-06-11 02:33 pm (UTC)