CrossBridge

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CrossBridge
Other namesProject Alchemy
Adobe Systems
Initial release2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Repository
LicenseOpen-source
Websiteadobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ Edit this on Wikidata

CrossBridge is an

ActionScript 3 projects.[2][3][4][5][6] CrossBridge was also known as "Alchemy" and the "Flash Runtime C++ Compiler", or "FlasCC".[7][8][9]

CrossBridge uses high-performance

ActionScript Virtual Machine 2). Programs built with CrossBridge are up to 10 times faster than normal ActionScript code,[4][5][6] but up to 2× to 10× slower than native C++ code.[11]

CrossBridge can generate Flash Player movies (

GPU-based 3D rendering acceleration present in Flash Player 11 (known as Stage3D).[12]

Using CrossBridge, Adobe ported

Mexican hat wavelet transform
.

History

In 2008, CrossBridge was released by Adobe as "Project Alchemy", on the

Adobe Labs website. It enabled compilation of specially modified C++ projects to SWF, using the LLVM and GCC compilers.[7]

In 2012, in an attempt to monetize Flash Player, Adobe restricted use of the Stage3D and Domain Memory features of Flash Player under the "Premium Features" brand. The "Premium Features" were licensed for use and publishers were to pay royalties to Adobe for use of the same.[16] Project Alchemy was commercially released as the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler.[9]

In 2013, Adobe open-sourced the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler as CrossBridge, and released it on the GitHub code hosting website.[17] The "Premium Features" were also made free for use, and no longer required licensing or royalties.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ CrossBridge by Adobe, at GitHub
  2. ^ "Alchemy:FAQ". Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012., Adobe Labs, "ASC performs few optimizations at this time"
  3. ^ Zotov, Peter (2012-05-06). "Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity – whitespace". Whitequark.org. Archived from the original on 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  4. ^ a b Alchemy:FAQ Archived May 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Adobe Labs
  5. ^ a b Optimizing ActionScript Bytecode using LLVM, Adobe
  6. ^ a b Adobe Alchemy, is it ActionScript heresy? Archived 2012-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Unit Zero One
  7. ^ a b Alchemy Released on Labs, Adobe Blogs, November 17, 2008
  8. ^ Alchemy Updates Released on Labs, Adobe Blogs, December 11, 2008
  9. ^ a b Project “Alchemy” is now the Flash Runtime C++ Compiler (FlasCC), Adobe Blogs, October 8, 2012
  10. ^ FlasCC for Flash Player, Adobe Gaming Archived May 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Alchemy Archived 2020-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Adobe Labs
  12. ^ XC APIs, Adobe Gaming Archived April 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ OpenGL for Stage3D, GitHub project hosting
  14. ^ lua-alchemy, Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy, Google Code
  15. ^ Real-time pitch detection in AVM2, Temptonik, January 2015
  16. ^ Premium Features for Flash Player Archived 2014-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Adobe Flash Team Blog, Adobe
  17. ^ Open Source Flash C++ Compiler, CrossBridge Archived 2014-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Adobe Blogs, June 25, 2013
  18. ^ Adobe Premium Features for Flash Player, Adobe Devnet

External links

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