Thanks for the clarification. I knew I saw some stuff about LLVM in one of the presentations I attended -- I just wasn't sure to what degree.
-Nick On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Kevin Newman <capta...@unfocus.com> wrote: > There are two different Flash related LLVM products at Adobe, afaik. > > They have an LLVM frontend which takes ABC code and turns that into ARM > code for packing on iPhone. Then there's the Alchemy stuff, which is an > LLVM backend, for generating ABC bytecode from other front ends like C and > C++. There are lots of stack exchange posts about both of these, and how > they work. > > I'd guess neither of those are actually useful to build an AS3 front end > (well maybe the ABC front end has similar data structures? IDK). > > Apache can't leverage either, since Adobe hasn't opened them up. I was > more curious about what would be involved with starting from scratch on an > LLVM frontend for AS3 (or starting from a similar one, like JavaScript - I > couldn't find one though). I assume it's a great deal of work (probably > prohibitively so) - but I'm still curious. :-) > > I have no idea if they are using LLVM in future versions of ASNext > compilers - but I have thought they would, cause why not! Recent info on > ASC2.0 (like their inline optimization) suggests maybe not. I don't know, > you'd have to ask the folks at Adobe (so far they ain't talking much about > ASNext though - I got the most info yet on it from this list). > > Kevin N. > > > > On 11/18/2012 12:17 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > >> 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. >> > >
