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From: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>
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Hi,

While JS performance has greatly improved over the last few years and in =
terms of raw number crunching tests it's probably on par with =
ActionScript in the very latest browsers  from what I understand the =
display performance is not on par with Flash/Flex.  Anyone have any =
unbiased performance numbers? I certainly don't know of any JS =
frameworks out there that are equal in scope or size to the Flex SDK.

The Flex framework is heavily optimised towards how the flash player =
works (look up the elastic racetrack) and while most of that is under =
the hood it still not going to optimised for how JS engines work. It's =
not going to be a simple matter of writing a 1-1 cross compiler. I have =
no idea how much work it would take  to get decent performance from =
"FlexJS" across a range of browsers but I'd assume it's not trivial.

Do we have an idea when  Adobe is going to release Flacon JS to Apache? =
=46rom memory it was discussed at the Flex Summit and was something like =
6 months away?

 I thought the initial focus of this project was to create a build and =
apply bug fixes to it. I for one would like to see an working Apache =
Flex SDK build as quickly as possible.

Thanks,
Justin=