Alchemy seems so much in flux right now IMO it seems like we should wait on that. I do really like the idea of a Starling for UI, that could be pretty huge.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Andras Csizmadia <and...@vpmedia.eu>wrote: > 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> >> <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... > > > -- Francis Altomare,
