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2009

Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash. A brilliant feat of engineering: Adobe worked around Apple’s “no runtime allowed” rules by writing a compiler front end for LLVM that compiles ActionScript 3 to ARM assembly code, and apparently ported the regular Flash drawing APIs as well.

# 5th October 2009, 9:15 pm / actionscript, adobe, compilers, flash, hacking, iphone, llvm

2007

ActionMonkey (via) SpiderMonkey + Tamarin = ActionMonkey. New JavaScript engine for Mozilla 2, incorporating code from Adobe’s Open Source ActionScript VM.

# 24th July 2007, 3:29 pm / actionmonkey, actionscript, adobe, javascript, mozilla, spidermonkey, tamarin

2006

Tamarin

On Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation and Adobe announced the Tamarin project, an open-source ECMAScript virtual machine based on the ActionScript engine used by Flash Player 9.

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12:24 pm / 9th November 2006 / actionscript, adobe, javascript, mozilla, tamarin

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