Script program execution device, script program execution method, and optical disk device

• US 20080270984A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsutsumitake, Hideyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/644,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

A script program execution device comprises an analysis unit which beforehand reads a script program, to analyze a syntax of the script program, before the execution of the script program is instructed, a storage unit which stores a syntax analysis result of the analysis unit, a generation unit which generates an intermediate code from the script program by use of the syntax analysis result stored in the storage unit, when the execution of the script program is instructed, and an execution unit which executes the intermediate code generated by the generation unit. According to this device, an application described in a script language is started and switched at a high speed.

Claims

1. A script program execution device which executes a script program described in a script language, the script program execution device comprising:

an analysis unit which beforehand reads the script program to analyze a syntax of the script program, before the execution of the script program is instructed;

a storage unit which stores a syntax analysis result of the analysis unit;

a generation unit which generates an intermediate code from the script program by use of the syntax analysis result stored in the storage unit, when the execution of the script program is instructed; and

an execution unit which executes the intermediate code generated by the generation unit.

2. The script program execution device according to claim 1, in which the script program includes a plurality of functions and the intermediate code generation unit generates the intermediate codes of the functions, the script program execution device further comprising:

a judgment unit which judges equivalences of the functions,

wherein in a case where the judgment unit judges that the functions equivalent to each other are present in the script program, the execution unit shares the intermediate code of a function generated by the execution of one function, during the execution of the other function.

3. The script program execution device according to claim 1, wherein the script program is a program described by an ECMAscript.

4. The script program execution device according to claim 2, wherein the script program is a program described by an ECMAscript.

5. An optical disk device to reproduce an optical disk in which an application including a plurality of script programs is recorded, the optical disk device comprising:

a disk drive which reproduces, by use of a light beam, information recorded in the optical disk;

a reading unit which beforehand reads the script program from the optical disk, when the optical disk is inserted into the disk drive;

an analysis unit which analyzes a syntax of the script program read by the reading unit;

a storage unit which stores a syntax analysis result of the analysis unit;

a generation unit which generates an intermediate code from the script program by use of the syntax analysis result stored in the storage unit, when execution of the application is instructed; and

an execution unit which executes the intermediate code generated by the generation unit.

6. The optical disk device according to claim 5, in which the plurality of script programs include a plurality of functions, respectively, and the intermediate code generation unit generates the intermediate codes of the functions, the optical disk device further comprising:

a judgment unit which judges equivalences of the functions,

wherein in a case where the judgment unit judges that the functions equivalent to each other are present in different applications, the execution unit shares the intermediate code of the function converted by the execution of one application, in the different applications.

7. The optical disk device according to claim 5, wherein the analysis unit preferentially interprets a syntax of the script program of a last-reproduced title at a time when a power supply of the optical disk is turned on.

8. The optical disk device according to claim 5, wherein the script program is a program described by an ECMAscript.

9. An script program execution method of executing a script program described in a script language, comprising:

beforehand reading the script program to analyze a syntax of the script program, before the execution of the script program is instructed;

storing a syntax analysis result of the script program;

generating an intermediate code from the script program by use of the stored syntax analysis result, when the execution of the script program is instructed; and

executing the generated intermediate code.

10. The script program execution method according to claim 9, in which the script program includes a plurality of functions and the intermediate codes of the functions are generated in the generation of the intermediate code, the script program execution method further comprising:

judging equivalences of the functions,

wherein during the execution of the intermediate code, in a case where it is judged that the functions equivalent to each other are present in the script program, the intermediate code of the function generated by the execution of one function is shared during the execution of the other function.