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Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler

Posted by samzenpus on from the transmutations dept.

SnT2k writes "Adobe recently released the beta version of Alchemy which compiles C/C++ code into AS3 bytecode (which runs on AVM2) that can run on the Flash or Flex platform and boasts increased performance for computationally-intensive tasks (but still slower than native C/C++). It was demonstrated last year during the Chicago MAX 2007 to run Quake. A few months later it has been demonstrated to run a Python interpreter and Nintendo Emulator. One interesting tidbit is that the thing is built upon the open source LLVM Compiler Infrastructure."

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  1. Virtualize Everything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, I can compile my C/C++ code to run on a slow virtual machine instead of a native cpu architecture.

    I haven't had this much fun ever since I discovered the java Virtual Machine written in java.

    It brings back the heady days of my 8088.

    1. Re:Virtualize Everything by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      JikesRVM has a small "bootstrap" VM that is used to get the main VM going, but after startup everything is run in the main VM (including the main VM itself).

      I am getting mental stack overflows just trying to parse that.

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  2. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I'd like a pony.

  3. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?

    Does Pony meat taste that good?

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  4. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... by fishbowl · · Score: 4, Funny

    >Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?

    I live all alone in a farmhouse, you insensitive clod.

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  5. C/C++ Trojan Horse by devloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Compiler", is that the new spelling for "Automated Buffer Overflow Generator" ?.

    1. Re:C/C++ Trojan Horse by noppy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Compile once, exploit everywhere.

  6. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't put a gift horse in the mouth.

    Fixed for ya.

  7. Re:A Cluster-Aware Distributed Java Virtual Machin by try_anything · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.anu.edu.au%2F~Peter.Strazdins%2Fseminars%2FdJVM.pdf&ei=FK0kSafSAZSo0gScxs3FDw&usg=AFQjCNHrPDWFanLbyUu3kX-lEkzZrWR6bw&sig2=jcMo0CIWzGg_nZVLvDHpxA

    My first thought on reading this post was that the super-long Google url WAS the cluster-aware distributed virtual machine.

    So, how long until Google reveals its next project: Compile C++ to a Google URL, and visit the URL to see your program running?

  8. Re:Still no contact info, so I'll post here... by k33l0r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why does everybody as for a pony, but not a stable to keep it in, or food to keep it alive?

    Does Pony meat taste that good?

    Because when it's a pony from Adobe you know that it will soon crash and die, and it wouldn't know what stable is anyway.