Comments on: What is FlaCC all about?

By: Find a Way « Marc Hibbins

Find a Way « Marc Hibbins — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:42:59 +0000

[...] used to be called FlaCC, and was previewed at Adobe MAX last year. Although it’s not intended to produce complete [...]

By: schjlatah

schjlatah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:13:53 +0000

He mentioned using server-side PHP and other technologies in the SWF, wouldn’t most of the robustness of the server native functionality be disabled by the flash player’s security sandbox, and wouldn’t the same go for C/C++ code? I agree that C/C++ compiled to run directly in the AVM is a pretty awesome idea, especially with regards to the thread emulation, but I’m still left wondering about flash security (and the flash player’s memory management).
If, however, using this method to compile bypasses the standard security measures that usually constrain AS code (compiled in Flash or Flex), why can’t we just go backwards; create an XSL that converts AS3 to C++ and compile that directly to a SWF. That way we could leverage the power of threads and other things usually outside the flash sandbox.

By: jonnymac blog » Flash on the Beach 08 / Day 3 / Sessions and Wrap Up

jonnymac blog » Flash on the Beach 08 / Day 3 / Sessions and Wrap Up — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:33:06 +0000

[...] also mentioned FLACC, and Peter Elst has a great write-up on FLACC and I highly suggest you check it out. It includes some video from Paul’s portion of this [...]

By: Flash Charlotte » Blog Archive » FlaCC: Flash C Compiler

Flash Charlotte » Blog Archive » FlaCC: Flash C Compiler — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:38:54 +0000

[...] this month Peter Elst posted on his blog about the FlaCC Project. In a nutshell, FlaCC is a way to compile C and C++ libraries to ActionScript bytecode, making code [...]

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:36:55 +0000

If one can compile C to AS bytecode and run 10x faster than equivalent AS code compiled to AS bytecode, doesn’t it mean that Adobe could also work on improving the AS->AS bytecode compiler to generate faster running bytecode? Honestly I would prefer they spend resources on this instead of allowing me to get C code running in Flash VM!

By: Daniel Freeman

Daniel Freeman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:03:46 +0000

I have got to get my hands on that! I love C++ programming! I want to write C++ AIR apps.

By: XSL in Adobe AIR « Dead Ink Vinyl

XSL in Adobe AIR « Dead Ink Vinyl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:25:22 +0000

[...] lot of other large-but-niche APIs—and let teams needing those capabilities include them with FlaCC, the upcoming C/C++ to Flash byte code compiler. (More info about FlaCC, including links to slides [...]

By: More information on FlaCC | Peter Elst

More information on FlaCC | Peter Elst — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:08:21 +0000

[...] to Zohar Babin for pointing me to some further information about the FlaCC project on the LLVM.org website. Scott Petersen gave a talk on August 1st at the Apple Campus for the [...]

By: Zohar Babin

Zohar Babin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:05:30 +0000

cool post :)
don’t forget about the video you posted on twitter:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2008-08/Petersen_FlashCCompiler_Hi.m4v

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:53:53 +0000

wow, excellent find Zohar — thanks for the link!