My talk at FITC San Francisco is over and I want to share some of the anouncements from today with you. At the end of my talk I was showing JITB. What you see in the YouTube video I posted a while ago is a Java program executing a SWF. For FITC I added some more code and an OpenGL based Display List renderer. In other words: I wrote a Flash Player. However I should rephrase that statement and say I am attempting to build a Flash Player. The current state is available in the sf2010-sprint clone of Apparat. I will merge the changes into the main Apparat branch when I am back home in Germany. JITB is currently able to translate a subset of ActionScript code at runtime into Java bytecode and runs nearly at the same speed as native Java. This is a really huge improvement compared to standard ActionScript performance. Creating 1.000.000 instances of flash.geom.Point takes only 30ms using JITB but 1000ms using the Flash Player. A lot of smart people worked on the JVM and made it really fast. Apparat will
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