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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:17:47 -0800
Subject: Re: What to expect from FalconJS
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On 11/17/12 9:14 PM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicholas@spoon.as> wrote:

> Kevin,
>=20
> I'm pretty sure that is what the existing compiler pretty much is.  I kno=
w
> they have mentioned LLMV being involved, but I'm not sure to what point
> (I'm not experienced with this compiler myself...)
I could be wrong, but I don't think LLVM is involved in Falcon or FalconJS.
It think it may be used in captive runtime so that may be why you associate=
d
it with the compiler.  But that stuff is in the AIR SDK and not in Apache.
>=20
> -Nick
>=20
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Kevin Newman <CaptainN@unfocus.com> wrot=
e:
>=20
>> I don't know much about compilers, or about how much work it'll be, but
>> that's my question.
>>=20
>> How much work would writing an AS3 front end for LLVM be? I imagine it's=
 a
>> lot of work.
>>=20
>> Adobe did it with ABC bytecode, so it seems it should be theoretically
>> possible (if a lot of work). There are backends for a bunch of stuff in
>> LLVM, including one for javascript.
>>=20
>> Kevin N.
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 11/17/2012 1:01 PM, s=E9bastien Paturel wrote:
>>=20
>>> "how can you cross compile AS3 to native code"
>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20

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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui