Thanks for your answer. Yes, i'd the same feeling. Mostly physics and image
processing libs are benefitting from alchemy.
Anyway my hope is that it will be also open-sourced one time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Zwaga
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:23 PM
To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org ; Andras Csizmadia
Subject: Re: Pushing Flex components thorough the GPU
Another performance optimization tip would be Alchemy integration (Memory
operations).
But i'm not sure the status of the product..
http://ncannasse.fr/blog/**adobe_make_some_alchemy<http://ncannasse.fr/blog/adobe_make_some_alchemy>
"Starting with Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, content targeting Flash
Player 11 and AIR 3
(i.e., content using SWF version 13 and above) will not support the
experimental Alchemy prototype."
With the plans that Adobe has with the 'new' Alchemy opcodes I don't think
Alchemy is much of an option.
The new Alchemy will have to be paid for if used in a commercial
application, so using it in Apache Flex
might become iffy real quick.
Plus, there's quite limited use-cases for Alchemy, not many components are
computationally heavy, Alchemy
isn't just some silver bullet that you just add to the mix and makes
everything super-fast all of a sudden.
Anyways, just my two cents...
