Re: Beanshell and BSF performance

2010/2/26 sebb <[email protected]>:
> On 26/02/2010, James Pharaoh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  I notice both these scripting facilities seem to recompile the script
>>  every time they are used. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be necessary
>>  and that the performance could be increased significantly by compiling
>>  once. Does anyone know any good reason this is not done?
> Because one would have to keep track of whether the script changed
> during the test run, e.g. because the GUI used variable or function
> references. Or indeed another script might change the script file
> (unlikely, but there might be a use case for this).

So in this case you could store scripts based on the hash code of the
string, or the timestamp and/or hash code of the file. There could
even be an option to always recompile, always reuse or always check.

James