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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 7-Nov-2006 21:55:53
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| Here we go again...
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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 7-Nov-2006 22:04:33
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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 7-Nov-2006 22:28:31
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| A virtual machine is not a compiler, it is an engine that converts system-calls directed at the virtual machine into system-calls specific to the hardware and OS that the virtual machine is running on top of.
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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 7-Nov-2006 22:46:39
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| The article said that the VM supports JIT compilation. This is certainly system-specific. |
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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 7-Nov-2006 23:21:52
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| @Samurai_Crow:
> JIT compilation. This is certainly system-specific
AFAIK no: compilation into the virtual meta-code is meant here.
BTW: nice thingy but actually I began to disable Flash in my browsers since it's mainly used by banners and advertising.
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Re: Adobe Opens Source Of The ActionScript Virtual Machine
Posted on 8-Nov-2006 2:46:03
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| What I thought would be of most interest were these statements in the Ars Technica article:
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| Mozilla has responded to Adobe's contribution by creating the Tamarin Project. Named after a species of tiny arboreal monkeys, the project aims to develop a complete ECMAScript 4 implementation based on Adobe's virtual machine. |
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| The availability of an open source ECMAScript 4 implementation would promote adoption of the standard and could potentially stimulate use of JavaScript 2, which is based on ECMAScript 4. |
I don't see how Amiga browsers would not benefit from implementing ECMAScript 4. The impression I get is that as the AVM2 is integrated into SpiderMonkey, it will be further developed. I see the potential for a stand alone VM that could provide JavaScript 2 interpretation via a browser plug-in... At least on the Amiga platform.Last edited by ShadesOfGrey on 08-Nov-2006 at 02:49 AM.
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