Martin:
Aral did a really good job of explaining this too. I agree.
FWIW - Uberity recently released this white paper which discusses the
different pros and cons of each type of approach (native, interpreted,
cross compiled and hybrid models) at
http://uberity.com/whitepapers/Mobile-Application-
HTML/JS ...
... topic popping up more often than not. haXe follows some concept that
I found being well summarized by Aral Balkan [1]:
"Embracing Write Once, Compile Anywhere, not Write Once, Run Anywhere."
I think that is a great concept: "compile anywhere". What keeps us from
compiling AS3