On 11/17/12 9:17 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
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> On 11/17/12 9:14 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote:
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>> Kevin,
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>> I'm pretty sure that is what the existing compiler pretty much is. I know
>> they have mentioned LLMV being involved, but I'm not sure to what point
>> (I'm not experienced with this compiler myself...)
> I could be wrong, but I don't think LLVM is involved in Falcon or FalconJS.
> It think it may be used in captive runtime so that may be why you associated
> it with the compiler. But that stuff is in the AIR SDK and not in Apache.
Or maybe it is used in Alchemy. But I don't think it is used in AS3->SWF or
AS3->JS.
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>> -Nick
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>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Kevin Newman <capta...@unfocus.com> wrote:
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>>> I don't know much about compilers, or about how much work it'll be, but
>>> that's my question.
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>>> How much work would writing an AS3 front end for LLVM be? I imagine it's a
>>> lot of work.
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>>> Adobe did it with ABC bytecode, so it seems it should be theoretically
>>> possible (if a lot of work). There are backends for a bunch of stuff in
>>> LLVM, including one for javascript.
>>>
>>> Kevin N.
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>>> On 11/17/2012 1:01 PM, sébastien Paturel wrote:
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>>>> "how can you cross compile AS3 to native code"
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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
