Merci, François! Quite an adventure in learning. Best,
Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch On Apr 15, 2010, at 4:14 PM, François Chaplais <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 15 avr. 2010 à 21:49, Jerry Daniels a écrit : > >> Check this one out: >> >> http://www.brockerhoff.net/bb/viewtopic.php?p=2796#2796 >> >> I found this to be a nice meta view of Xcode future and why Apple is drawing >> the line now. Esoterica is in the post's links. I don't really think this is >> so much about clipping Adobe's wings, but that is certainly a side effect. >> >> Those prone to seeing disaster for revMobile should be of good cheer. There >> are a couple of foolproof ways to deliver rev coded iPhone and iPad apps >> that avoid that line that Apple is drawing. >> >> The webkit may be our savior. One company has already gotten the ok for apps >> that are made by serving up screens inside a Xcode built client app. The >> screens are created with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS. They, of course use the >> iPhone OS APIs in all their glory. These are much more like app screens than >> web pages. >> >> Best, >> >> Jerry Daniels >> > > I had noticed the LLVM-Clang thing some time ago. If I understand well, Clang > compilers can compile code almost down to machine language-except that it > just stops before that. The final step after that is managed elsewhere. The > interesting thing thing is that Clang compilers are able to really fine tune > your code even though you do not know the processor at this stage. > > This is a move by Apple towards independence from chip designers. For > instance, I do not know how the G4 iPad chip was designed, but having an > "almost" compiler that works independently of the chip must help Apple manage > OS X on the iPhone, iPad and Mac. > > This may seem like kremlinology, but I think the transition by Apple from > PowerPC to x86 was made easier by the fact that OpenStep was designed to be > platform (whatever that means) independent. Clearly, SJ likes independence. > > Furthermore, it seems that this also related to programming on multicore > chips. > > > There are entries on Clang and LLVM in the english version of wikipedia. > > I first heard of this at the Ars Technica review of snow leopard: > http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/9 > and later pages > Very nice review, IMHO. > > Grand Central Dispatch is also related to Clang and LLVM. > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/apple-opens-gcd-challenges-impede-adoption-on-linux.ars > > > Cheers, > François > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
