On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Kerry Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> don't swfs compiled from c run faster in the plugin than ones compiled >> in actionscript? i thought i read that > > I don't know of a way to compile a swf from C, or any machine-language > compiler. I'm not quite sure about iPhone apps developed in Flash--they may > compile to native code, but there isn't a way to compile a swf to machine > language that I know of. > > If there was, yes, it would run faster than Flash or Flex swf's. Anything > that compiles to machine code will run faster than something that compiles > to a token and runs on a virtual machine. Alchemy compiles C++ to Actionscript bytecode. Some of the generated bytecode _is_ faster than bytecode compiled from AS3, partially because Alchemy uses a bunch of new bytecode instructions for directly manipulating blocks of memory -- instructions that are not used by the current AS3 compiler. However, some things aren't faster; they're identical. As far as the iPhone goes, the AS3 is being compiled directly into iPhone native code, not bytecode; in the same way as Objective C is compiled to native code. Ian _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
