I'm also really waiting to see this new technology running , but I'm a little concerned about speed. I read on some MM blog that the new VM is having a 5-10x speed improvment. That's already great, but it's still far from Java bytecode speed for exemple. I know pretty well ASVM1 bytecode so I can tell that unless they radicaly changed the design of opcodes, they'll not be able to get "state of the art" performances. For instance Python is bytecode-interpreted and is already around 5-10 times faster than ActionScript. And Python design is known to be difficult (read slow) to execute.
But I think it's great that MM is taking VM performances seriously, and I hope they will keep on improving it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kremens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash player 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0 "with a Just in time compiler it should be in the ball park of java or the .net VM. Compiler technology is pretty well understood. If they have been working on this for 2 years there is no reason they shouldnt be state of the art in this area." That's crazy. I can't wait... Jim Kremens On 10/8/05, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course there is no way to know without trying it but... > > with a Just in time compiler it should be in the ball park of java or > the .net VM. Compiler technology is pretty well understood. If they > have been working on this for 2 years there is no reason they shouldnt > be state of the art in this area. > > Hank > > On 10/8/05, Jim Kremens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The discussion of JVM and .NET runtimes makes me wonder whether Flash > > will ever really compete with them. > > > > How much faster is the new Virtual Machine? Whatever the increase, > > does it put us in the realm of, say, Java regarding speed? If not, > > how far off? > > > > Jim Kremens > > > > On 10/8/05, Weyert de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Isaac Rivera wrote: > > > > > > > I know that MS has stated that they would port .NET to ALL platforms. > > > > Let's see. > > > > > > > > Until there is an official, up to date, fully capable, Darwin port, > > > > there is an even better alternative than mono... JVM can be developed > > > > and deployed everywhere with community-approved products. > > > > > > Too bad you need to use Java for JVM at the moment. :=) Of course Cocoa > > > is a good option too and just drop Windows etc. <g> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Flashcoders mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
