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charles_demers
charles_demers

Reputation: 125

What is the difference between the different builds?

I noticed when building Ember.js and more recently in the new Builds page on emberjs.com that there are "normal", "runtime" and "prod" builds.

What is the difference between each and when should we use them?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 54

Answers (1)

mavilein
mavilein

Reputation: 11668

I am not absolutely sure, but here is a guess that i am quite confident of:

There are 2 dimensions to this question: Runtime vs Normal and Prod vs Non-Prod

Runtime vs Normal: Runtime is a only a subset of the normal (complete) ember distribution, which contains only the object system. I guess this is included, because people asked for it from time to time. A quote of a core contributor (found in this question):

Runtime provides the Ember object system along with a handful of useful classes. The object system is built with many of the foundational technologies implemented in metal, but exposes them in a much cleaner way to the application developer.

Prod vs Non-Prod: As you can see on the builds page the prod build is a little bit smaller, so it is missing some lines of code. I am pretty sure that those missing lines are assertions that are stripped from the ember build as they are needed only development and can slow down your application considerably.

Upvotes: 2

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