Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler 216
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SnT2k writes "Adobe recently released the beta version of Alchemy which compiles C/C++ code into AS3 bytecode (which runs on AVM2) that can run on the Flash or Flex platform and boasts increased performance for computationally-intensive tasks (but still slower than native C/C++). It was demonstrated last year during the Chicago MAX 2007 to run Quake. A few months later it has been demonstrated to run a Python interpreter and Nintendo Emulator. One interesting tidbit is that the thing is built upon the open source LLVM Compiler Infrastructure."
Virtualize Everything (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I can compile my C/C++ code to run on a slow virtual machine instead of a native cpu architecture.
I haven't had this much fun ever since I discovered the java Virtual Machine written in java.
It brings back the heady days of my 8088.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:5, Funny)
Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?
Does Pony meat taste that good?
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Funny)
Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?
Does Pony meat taste that good?
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:4, Funny)
>Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?
I live all alone in a farmhouse, you insensitive clod.
C/C++ Trojan Horse (Score:4, Funny)
"Compiler", is that the new spelling for "Automated Buffer Overflow Generator" ?.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:4, Funny)
Don't put a gift horse in the mouth.
Fixed for ya.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:1, Funny)
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth. [questionablecontent.net]
Re:Virtualize Everything (Score:5, Funny)
JikesRVM has a small "bootstrap" VM that is used to get the main VM going, but after startup everything is run in the main VM (including the main VM itself).
I am getting mental stack overflows just trying to parse that.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:1, Funny)
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Shouldn't that be ... Don't put a gift horse in the mouth
Oh wait, that sounds even worse. Nevermind.
Re:A Cluster-Aware Distributed Java Virtual Machin (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.anu.edu.au%2F~Peter.Strazdins%2Fseminars%2FdJVM.pdf&ei=FK0kSafSAZSo0gScxs3FDw&usg=AFQjCNHrPDWFanLbyUu3kX-lEkzZrWR6bw&sig2=jcMo0CIWzGg_nZVLvDHpxA
My first thought on reading this post was that the super-long Google url WAS the cluster-aware distributed virtual machine.
So, how long until Google reveals its next project: Compile C++ to a Google URL, and visit the URL to see your program running?
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:5, Funny)
Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?
Does Pony meat taste that good?
Because when it's a pony from Adobe you know that it will soon crash and die, and it wouldn't know what stable is anyway.
Re:C/C++ Trojan Horse (Score:5, Funny)
a free ride when you've already paid (Score:2, Funny)
Wow!!!! That's like rain on your wedding day! That's like like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife!!! That's like good advice that you just didn't take!!!
Now for hassle-free Java applets (Score:4, Funny)
Finally! Java applets are always so full of hassle to get running compared to Flash objects.
Now I can compile the JVM to Flash and run my Java applets inside Flash - no more need to install those meddlesome Java plugins!
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Funny)
think the closest analogy to horse meat is ostrich meat
Thanks! I'm glad you cleared that up for everyone.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Funny)
Ostrich doesn't really taste like beef at all. In fact I can't think of anything else it does taste like.
It's little bit like emu
Re:It has been said (Score:3, Funny)
And before someone responds to this as if it were a serious post: I very sincerely hope this is and will remain a joke.
Re:Now for hassle-free Java applets (Score:3, Funny)
Are you sure you don't want to port Bochs first so you can run Java on Windows 98 in your Flash?