Deferred (aka lazy) loading of static functions.

dart/sdk/lib/_internal/compiler/implementation/deferred_load.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+library deferred_load;
+
+import 'dart:uri';
+
+import 'dart2jslib.dart'
+       show Compiler,
+            CompilerTask,
+            ConstructedConstant,
+            SourceString;
+
+import 'elements/elements.dart'
+       show ClassElement,
+            Element,
+            LibraryElement,
+            MetadataAnnotation;
+
+import 'util/util.dart'
+       show Link;
+
+import 'tree/tree.dart'
+       show LibraryTag;
+
+class DeferredLoadTask extends CompilerTask {

[ngeoffray, 2013/02/19 10:04:57]

Is there some time you would like to measure for this task?

[ahe, 2013/02/19 11:10:36]

Done.

+  final Set<LibraryElement> deferredLibraries = new Set<LibraryElement>();
+
+  ClassElement cachedDeferredLibraryClass;
+
+  DeferredLoadTask(Compiler compiler) : super(compiler);
+
+  String get name => 'Lazy';
+
+  /// DeferredLibrary from dart:async
+  ClassElement get deferredLibraryClass {
+    if (cachedDeferredLibraryClass == null) {
+      cachedDeferredLibraryClass = findDeferredLibraryClass();
+    }
+    return cachedDeferredLibraryClass;
+  }
+
+  ClassElement findDeferredLibraryClass() {
+    var uri = new Uri.fromComponents(scheme: 'dart', path: 'async');
+    LibraryElement asyncLibrary =
+        compiler.libraryLoader.loadLibrary(uri, null, uri);
+    var element = asyncLibrary.find(const SourceString('DeferredLibrary'));
+    if (element == null) {
+      internalErrorOnElement(
+          asyncLibrary,
+          'dart:async library does not contain required class: '
+          'DeferredLibrary');
+    }
+    return element;
+  }
+
+  bool isDeferred(Element element) {
+    // TODO(ahe): This is really a graph coloring problem. We should
+    // make sure that libraries and elements only used by a deferred
+    // library are also deferred.
+    // Also, if something is deferred depends on your
+    // perspective. Inside a deferred library, other elements of the
+    // same library are not deferred. We should add an extra parameter
+    // to this method to indicate "from where".
+    return deferredLibraries.contains(element.getLibrary());
+  }
+
+  void registerMainApp(LibraryElement mainApp) {
+    if (mainApp == null) return;
+    compiler.withCurrentElement(mainApp, () {
+      deferredLibraries.addAll(findDeferredLibraries(mainApp));
+    });
+  }
+
+  Link<Element> findDeferredLibraries(LibraryElement library) {
+    Link<LibraryElement> link = const Link<LibraryElement>();
+    for (LibraryTag tag in library.tags) {
+      Link<MetadataAnnotation> metadata = tag.metadata;
+      if (metadata == null) continue;
+      for (MetadataAnnotation metadata in tag.metadata) {
+        metadata.ensureResolved(compiler);
+        Element element = metadata.value.computeType(compiler).element;
+        if (element == deferredLibraryClass) {
+          ConstructedConstant value = metadata.value;
+          SourceString expectedName = value.fields[0].toDartString().source;
+          LibraryElement deferredLibrary = library.getLibraryFromTag(tag);
+          link = link.prepend(deferredLibrary);
+          SourceString actualName =
+              new SourceString(deferredLibrary.getLibraryOrScriptName());
+          if (expectedName != actualName) {
+            compiler.reportErrorCode(
+                metadata,
+                MessageKind.DEFERRED_LIBRARY_NAME_MISMATCH,
+                { 'expectedName': expectedName.slowToString(),
+                  'actualName': actualName.slowToString()});
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return link;
+  }
+}