> I don't think LLVM is involved in Falcon or FalconJS. That's correct.
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 9:47 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: What to expect from FalconJS On 11/17/12 9:17 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 11/17/12 9:14 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > >> Kevin, >> >> 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. >> >> -Nick >> >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Kevin Newman <capta...@unfocus.com> wrote: >> >>> I don't know much about compilers, or about how much work it'll be, >>> but that's my question. >>> >>> How much work would writing an AS3 front end for LLVM be? I imagine >>> it's a lot of work. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/17/2012 1:01 PM, sébastien Paturel wrote: >>> >>>> "how can you cross compile AS3 to native code" >>>> >>> >>> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
