Adobe brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices “likely to be Flash lite 4”
Great news!! coming from Adobe for contributing a new virtual machine to the open source Mozilla Tamarin project. This new VM – internally called QVM – known to the outside world as Tamarin-Tracing essentially brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices.
So power your imagination to see this as a first step into bringing AS3 Flash content and eventually Flex/MXML to mobile and devices. i must say that its exciting times ahead.
The QVM will likely be what executes Flash Lite 4, the next generation of the Flash mobile spec, allowing full AS3 compliance. In theory, this will enable Flex users to author for devices as well and open up mobile development to an even larger base of Flash developers.
Parts of QVM “tamarin-tracing” are written in the Forth programming language because you are create really efficient VMs in 50K of memory runable on just about any device available today. QVM makes AS3 bytecode execute on a majority of devices that consumers already own and is a key part of the future Flash Player and AIR strategies. The open sourcing of QVM will accelerate our device strategy and allow EcmaScript to scale up and down independent of system resources.
Exciting times ahead 🙂
vivek
If you took care of documenting yourself before posting, you would have realized that there is not such a thing. The Taramin-Tracing VM is still fully hinted at desktop machines, there is absolutely no trace of any mobile optimization and the JIT generation code is clearly marked “Win”, “Mac” and “Unix”. “Part of the code is written in the Fort language”, no it is all C++, just check it for yourself. Also when you use quotes like “likely to be Flash lite 4″ it means you have read it somewhere else, while you just invented it. The Adobe guy that spread this information first has apologized already, would be good if Adobe fans start to check the accuracy of what they write instead of spreading “happiness and great news” on non existing projects even when Adobe just farted.