Embedded portability I think is key for me. How portable is light-spark? Ash
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Rob Savoye <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/10 09:01, Alessandro Pignotti wrote: > > > You could argument that I should have worked on Gnash in the beginning, > but I > > wanted to build something new: a technology platform that could really be > > future proof. At this point I can say to have partly succeeded as I'm > very > > happy of the graphics handling (especially the new engine not yet merged > in > > master) and threading approach, while I'm not completely satisfied by the > LLVM > > backend, and I'm considering switching to Chromium's V8 (if a suitable > AST > > could be generated from the AVM2 bytecode). > > I've considered V8 as well, but as you said, it would have been nice > if this had been added to Gnash instead of starting an entire different > project. :-) > > > I've not any money to offer, but I'd like to invite all the devs to take > a look > > at lightspark code and join our efforts. > > Based on prior discussion, I see two problems with using LightSpark, > although that would be the preferable solution. One is that only > supports OpenGL, and the other is it uses LLVM. This leaves LightSpark > as a mainly desktop application. Me, I think mobile and embedded is the > way to go, so we need an AVM2 VM that supports smaller devices with less > footprint and doesn't need OpenGL. > > The other problem is handling multiple versions of flash, which is > common. LightSpark only handles avm2, and hands off any older AVM1 > content to Gnash. This would need to be changed to allow Gnash to hand > off AVM2 content to LightSpark. In this example though, I'd want a > display list of some kind that could then be passed back to Gnash for > rendering and other things. > > - rob - > > _______________________________________________ > Gnash-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev >
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