So the performance gains will end up in AS3, sometime:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:FAQ
"Why can't the ActionScript compiler generate byte code that executes as
quickly as Alchemy?
Compiling with LLVM tools (included as part of Alchemy) allows compile
and link time optimizations to be applied that the ActionScript compiler
does not use as yet. In addition, for operations involving ByteArrays
there are opcodes that are optimized for performance, which the
ActionScript compiler does not generate today.
The Alchemy team is working closely with the Flash Player and compiler
teams, and Adobe expects that many if not all of the performance
improvements from Alchemy will find their way into the shipping
compilers and players."
John
Meinte van't Kruis wrote:
I was also thinking in the lines of alchemy, and the amazing stuff people
pull of using that.
Seeing the whole apparat project of Joa Ebert or the stuff Nicolas Cannasse
pulls off...
When reading about that, I think a bit of a c++ or even assembler knowledge
would've
helped a great deal, since I'm playing with alchemy a bit myself now as
well.
I realise that stuff isn't found in the average Flash project, allthough I
did work in a project
not too long ago where they are implementing some alchemy to speed things
up.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Paul Andrews <p...@ipauland.com> wrote:
Meinte van't Kruis wrote:
Actually, I think performance should be on top of the priority list for
any
Flash developer.
Unresponsive flash apps are the number one irritation imho.
LOL, I have yet to write one and I have yet to use any techniques from my
assembler or C++ days. In most cases Flash provides more than adequate
responsiveness with very little special care.
The top of the priority list is a user experience that makes the client
happy and performance and responsiveness has yet to be a deciding issue.
The most challenging responsiveness issue I have had has been parsing large
text files for data (several megabytes in size) using AS2 while keeping a
visualisation animating smoothly and preventing script time-outs. It was
very much the rare exception.
I realise that for some people manipulating large numbers of animated clips
or sprites, performance could be an issue, but I think such applications of
flash aren't the mainstream.
Paul
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