Re: Lua ActionScript Alchemy

["Alexander Gladysh" <agladysh@...>]

Hi!

Great to see someone else is interested in this area. I'm open for
collaboration. :-)

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Asko Kauppi <askok@dnainternet.net> wrote:
> steve donovan kirjoitti 3.12.2008 kello 11:44:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Robert Stehwien <rstehwien@gmail.com>
>> wrote:

>>> I just made my first foray into Lua by using Adobe's Alchemy C/C++ to
>>> ActionScript compiler to write a proof of concept embedding Lua into
>>> Flash.

>> Would be interesting to know what the performance of Lua would be
>> given that the Lua VM would be running on the Flash VM.

>> steve d.
>
> Indeed!  :)
>
> Having layers on top of layers on top ... is certainly one of the factors
> leading to CPU improvements just vanishing somewhere, most of the time.
>
> Then again, it would be cool to have built-in Lua support in Flash. Maybe
> this will eventually lead to such?

I think that with help of lua-llvm direct compilation from Lua to swf
should be possible *in theory*. It must require a lot of work to
implement though...

Alexander.