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Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM

Posted by Soulskill on from the stay-as-long-as-you-like dept.

MBCook writes "Joa Ebert has started working on a new program called JITB. Announced in a talk at FITC San Fran, it's a Flash player written to use the Java JVM to run ActionScript, and in a simple graphics test case (making 1 million calls to flash.geom.Point) was 30x faster than Adobe's Flash player. There is an impressive demo video on YouTube showing the point test."

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  1. BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this really works, then we will finally get Flash to work on BSD and 64 bit version of Linux.

  2. Re:Ironically... by microbee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, HTML5.

    Try to watch Youtube on a laptop with a really slow wireless connection. Then switch to an iPad.