Deferred load AudioElement code unless needed

[kevmoo]

https://www.dartlang.org/guides/language/language-tour#deferred-loading

One thing on code size: you have a lot of if X, do Y, else do Z code in StageXL.

Great for flexible runtime behavior, but you end up paying for Y and Z even if only one is used.

You may get traction by deferred loading the fallback logic in some cases – like AudioElement.

[bp74]

Thanks for the suggestion, this is surely something i should look into.

Since you mentioned AudioElement ... Dartium is super old, i'm waiting for a bugfix for AudioElement and WebAudio API that was fixed in Chrome 50.

[kevmoo]

We're working on that, too. 😄

[kevmoo]

On second thought, maybe not.

The overhead of compiling in the deferred loading infrastructure is greater than the savings of defer loading Audio and Mock sound things. 🤷‍♂️

[kevmoo]

See this branch: https://github.com/kevmoo/StageXL/tree/deferred_audio

[kevmoo]

If one had an app that was already using deferred loading, I think you would get some help here.

I could imagine that being the case w/ a game with defer-loaded levels, etc.