Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM 126
MBCook writes "Joa Ebert has started working on a new program called JITB. Announced in a talk at FITC San Fran, it's a Flash player written to use the Java JVM to run ActionScript, and in a simple graphics test case (making 1 million calls to flash.geom.Point) was 30x faster than Adobe's Flash player. There is an impressive demo video on YouTube showing the point test."
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Screen capture software (Score:5, Funny)
Does anybody know of screen capture software that reproduces the "I'm recording video of my monitor using my shitty cell phone" effect?
Re:Screen capture software (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, unfortunately it only ships with shitty cell phones...
Re:Ironically... (Score:4, Funny)
An African Swallow... or a European one, I don't remember which one is slower... WHAAAAAAH (thrown into cliff).
Re:This corroborates what we all know... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:30X faster? (Score:4, Funny)
The problem here is not that the claim of a 30x performance increase was fallaciously generalized based on one particular piece of code as compared with Adobe's player, but that anyone familiar with Flash would find this claim to seem quite plausible.
If someone claimed that they made a compiler that, say, generated code that was 30x faster than what Microsoft's compiler or gcc could do, no one would believe it for a minute.