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From: Gordon Smith <gosmith@adobe.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:09:11 -0800
Subject: RE: AS3 Enhancements: method overloading. Why do people want this?
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Not all optimization belongs in the compiler, especially if the optimizatio=
ns make SWFs bigger and slower to load. The AVM can also optimize when it J=
ITs the bytecode to native code, but then this increases JIT time. The trad=
eoffs are complicated.

Gordon Smith, Adobe

-----Original Message-----
From: David Arno [mailto:david@davidarno.org]=20
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 1:56 AM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: AS3 Enhancements: method overloading. Why do people want this?

> From: Rick Winscot [mailto:rick.winscot@gmail.com]
> Sent: 17 January 2012 00:51
>
> I find it interesting that pretty much all the nay votes don't want it=20
> because it isn't pretty... or makes things feel strange or...
> [ insert touchie feelie reason here ].=20

It's called "Software Craftsmanship" Rick :p

> Overloading is a performance mechanism...=20

One of my biggest aims with Apache Flex is to tackle the lack of optimisati=
on on the part of the compiler. Developers should be able to concentrate on=
 writing good code and not have to worry about performance.
The latter is the job of the compiler.

David.