The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C?

[sl4shd0t]

mad.frog writes to tell us that in a recent talk by Adobe's Scott Petersen he demonstrated a new toolchain that he has been working on (and soon to be open-sourced) that allows C code to be run by the Tamarin virtual machine. "The toolchain includes lots of other details, such as a custom POSIX system call API and a C multimedia library that provides access to Flash. And there's some things that Petersen had to add to Tamarin, such as a native byte array that maps directly to RAM, thereby allowing the VM's "emulation" of memory to have only a minor overhead over the real thing. The end result is the ability to run a wide variety of existing C code in Flash at acceptable speeds. Petersen demonstrated a version of Quake running in a Flash app, as well as a C-based Nintendo emulator running Zelda; both were eminently playable, and included sound effects and music."http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/07/1724236 (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/07/1724236&from=rss)
Read more of this story (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/07/1724236&from=rss) at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers?i=45n05V</img> (http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers?a=45n05V)
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/329125969

More... (http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~3/329125969/article.pl)