Yes, and if we can abstract further to allow mix languages would b nice Sent from Samsung Mobile
Abhilash Krishnan <abhilashk....@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Whenever I started playing around with Tamarin VM, the AVM2 clone donated to Mozilla, I really wanted to add some cool features on my own. I know Flash/AS3 is based on event-driven programming model. If ever Adobe wanted to implement multi--threading in Flash or AIR it would be a killer feature for many an application. I know multi-threading is not relevant for Flex at the moment but cannot resist the temptation to convey my thoughts. *Is Adobe hearing? Abhilash On 12 January 2012 07:34, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 1/11/12 10:07 PM, "Web DoubleFx" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > We do not get something for nothing, I am willing to sacrifice a bit of > the > > Falcon compile time gain to get such features, that's a big YES even. > > Before the flexsummit, we did a online meeting for french flex > developpers > > about what we wanted for the futur of Flex, that's a summary : > > > http://www.flex-tutorial.fr/2011/12/08/flex-5-most-wanted-features-polls-and-r > > esults/, the most important one was " Improve the language (private > > constructors: operator overloading, generics, metatags, enums, abstract > > classes, introspection, Š) so that ActionScript becomes the same level as > > Java". > > > > You said in several e-mails already that if we want a better language > > implementation, we have to do trade-off and accept to sacrify > performence, I > > think many people would like to know for each of the new features, what > is the > > exact cost, is it possible to measure it or even get a good idea of it ? > > Frédéric Thomas > I haven't done enough research to know what the costs would be. My first > question would be, why do you absolutely have to have equivalency with > Java? > And, given that the VM is "fixed" do you care that some of these things > would be un-enforced in the runtime? Maybe you should just compile Java to > ABC? > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
