{"id":1398,"date":"2010-04-15T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2798"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:04:02","slug":"re-ipad-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/re-ipad-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: iPad time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>richardl wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rainer, it is interesting to note that Adobe built their ActionScript\/Flash compiler for iPhone on top of LLVM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cs.illinois.edu\/news\/2009\/Oct8-2\">http:\/\/cs.illinois.edu\/news\/2009\/Oct8-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/logged_in\/abansod_iphone.html\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/logged_in\/abansod_iphone.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, I wasn&#8217;t aware of that. However, I don&#8217;t think that this invalidates my original argument, which is more based on Clang than on LLVM. Christopher Lloyd <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cjwl\/status\/12230740094\"> also remarked on this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Yet Adobe uses llvm for the compiled Flash, so they don&#8217;t like Adobe&#8217;s parser? silly. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MQtRZ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MQtRZ<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.vandevoorde.com\/\">Daveed Vandevoorde<\/a>, who remarked that the LLVM bytecode <a href=\"http:\/\/llvm.org\/docs\/FAQ.html#platformindependent\">isn&#8217;t as platform-independent<\/a> as I thought &#8211; things like sizes of variables and ABIs (Application Binary Interfaces) stand in the way. Still, it&#8217;s not impossible to see Apple defining a generic target platform, in terms of sizes of pointers, integers and so forth, and a specific endianness and runtime ABI, and then staying within the bytecode for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>richardl wrote: Rainer, it is interesting to note that Adobe built their ActionScript\/Flash compiler for iPhone on top of LLVM. http:\/\/cs.illinois.edu\/news\/2009\/Oct8-2 http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/logged_in\/abansod_iphone.html Thanks, I wasn&#8217;t aware of that. However, I don&#8217;t think that this invalidates my original argument, which is more based on Clang than on LLVM. Christopher Lloyd also remarked on this: &#8230;Yet Adobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[14,12,15,11,13],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-dev","tag-clang","tag-flash","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-llvm"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-my","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}