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."
Re:Virtualize Everything (Score:5, Informative)
http://jikesrvm.org/ [jikesrvm.org]
More details (Score:5, Informative)
You post your ideas for Adobe here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=755&entercat=y [adobe.com] These forums are closely watched by the flash player team.
Re:Virtualize Everything (Score:3, Informative)
Wow. Even worse. Apparently there's more than one, because if you notice my previous comment...well, that wasn't the one I found.
http://joeq.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Informative)
I believe this goes directly to the engineers over at Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:3, Informative)
no, but boiling their skins, bones, tendons and tissues makes the most awesome wood glue.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:5, Informative)
horse meat does taste good, low fat and kind of sweet. i think the closest analogy to horse meat is ostrich meat. i would prefer a horse steak to a beef steak every time.
just don't try the mongol horse salami. it doesn't taste very good and the meat sticks between your teeth.
Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... (Score:4, Informative)
Post the question to tamarin-devel@mozilla.org -- all the relevant people at Adobe are on that list, and although Alchemy is not technically part of the Tamarin project, it's related enough.
Re:It has been said (Score:3, Informative)
Jailbreak it. There's a quake4iphone in Cydia that's been there for months, with hardware acceleration and everything.
Re:It has been said (Score:3, Informative)
I'd be willing to wager that you've used responsibly designed Flash applets before and simply assumed them to be cleverly implemented Javascript [...]
I bet he didn't even notice pressing the big f/play button to make it run ;)
[FlashBlock firefox extension, a godsend; even worth it when you use noscript, for those video players that start playing straight away despite your wishes].