Comments on: Switched to IMMIX for Internal Garbage Collection http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/ Experimenting with Web Game Development Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Huge http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Huge Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:01:09 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-309 Hi Brad, Yes, hxcpp uses NME, which implements the flash9 drawing api. There is no reason why someone could not write a flash 8 api, but it has not been done. Hugh Hi Brad,
Yes, hxcpp uses NME, which implements the flash9 drawing api. There is no reason why someone could not write a flash 8 api, but it has not been done.

Hugh

]]> By: Brad Parks http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Brad Parks Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:21:30 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-308 One more question ;-) Hxcpp seems to be able to compile the Flash9 haxe library. Can hxcpp compile the Flash haxe library too (ie Flash 6-8) ? I've tried adding the "—swf—version 8" flag to the haxe command line, but it doesn't seem to respect it... It seems to still build for the Flash 9 library... Thanks! One more question ;-)

Hxcpp seems to be able to compile the Flash9 haxe library. Can hxcpp compile the Flash haxe library too (ie Flash 6-8) ?

I’ve tried adding the “—swf—version 8″ flag to the haxe command line, but it doesn’t seem to respect it… It seems to still build for the Flash 9 library…

Thanks!

]]> By: Brad Parks http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Brad Parks Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:18:01 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-307 thanks for all the info... i've compiled the physaxe sample and have only gotten 15 fps out of it, but I used physaxe source from an old hxcpp release you did, and I'm sure you've probably done some optimizations to the physaxe code yourself to get some better frame rates... I'm building a physics based platformer that's about 70% working in Objective C right now. But if I could switch to Haxe and feel confident that a similar iPhone target would be viable somewhat soon, then I'd drop that and focus my efforts on building a haxe platformer instead, so I wouldn't be locked into one platform/vendor, which of course is a huge thing with the fickleness of the appstore. What's your feeling on this? Do you think I should just finish up my game in Objective C, or do you think that the optimizations you're doing now would come through enough that a physics based platformer with sprites of course, would be viable under Haxe on the iPhone anytime soon? Thanks again! No matter what I'm going to be using Haxe... the only real consideration is whether or not it's for this project! thanks for all the info… i’ve compiled the physaxe sample and have only gotten 15 fps out of it, but I used physaxe source from an old hxcpp release you did, and I’m sure you’ve probably done some optimizations to the physaxe code yourself to get some better frame rates…

I’m building a physics based platformer that’s about 70% working in Objective C right now. But if I could switch to Haxe and feel confident that a similar iPhone target would be viable somewhat soon, then I’d drop that and focus my efforts on building a haxe platformer instead, so I wouldn’t be locked into one platform/vendor, which of course is a huge thing with the fickleness of the appstore.

What’s your feeling on this? Do you think I should just finish up my game in Objective C, or do you think that the optimizations you’re doing now would come through enough that a physics based platformer with sprites of course, would be viable under Haxe on the iPhone anytime soon?

Thanks again! No matter what I’m going to be using Haxe… the only real consideration is whether or not it’s for this project!

]]> By: Huge http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Huge Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:54:26 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-304 Hi Brad, The opengl flag is in the constructor of the NME Manager class - should be able to put it on there. Some of the later nme samples allow you to specify "-o" on the commandline for opengl. OpenGL should really be on always in the NME ndll for iphone - I will probably fix this at some stage. I can get about 20-30 fps for the physaxe example - but there are some inefficiencies I'm trying to remove. Up to 60fps for a simple bitmap based game. Currently text is overly expensive to render - so turn the stats panel of in the physaxe example. The other real killer is writing a "copyPixel" based engine, since these operations are not ogl accelerated, and must be uploaded as a texture, which is very expensive. Huge Hi Brad,
The opengl flag is in the constructor of the NME Manager class – should be able to put it on there.
Some of the later nme samples allow you to specify “-o” on the commandline for opengl.
OpenGL should really be on always in the NME ndll for iphone – I will probably fix this at some stage.

I can get about 20-30 fps for the physaxe example – but there are some inefficiencies I’m trying to remove.
Up to 60fps for a simple bitmap based game. Currently text is overly expensive to render – so turn the stats
panel of in the physaxe example.
The other real killer is writing a “copyPixel” based engine, since these operations are not ogl accelerated,
and must be uploaded as a texture, which is very expensive.

Huge

]]> By: Brad Parks http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Brad Parks Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:43:10 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-303 I just realized that for the Neash example, there was "neash.Lib.mOpenGL = true;" is required to enable openGL support... Makes sense of course, but I started trying more samples other than just the dead simple sample, and used code from existing sample projects, which didn't have this enabled by default. So the openGL support appears to be there for Neash at the least... Is it there in some way for the NME only examples? I tried searching SVN for a public way of setting this type of property, but didn't see one.... I just realized that for the Neash example, there was “neash.Lib.mOpenGL = true;” is required to enable openGL support… Makes sense of course, but I started trying more samples other than just the dead simple sample, and used code from existing sample projects, which didn’t have this enabled by default.

So the openGL support appears to be there for Neash at the least… Is it there in some way for the NME only examples? I tried searching SVN for a public way of setting this type of property, but didn’t see one….

]]> By: Brad Parks http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Brad Parks Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:17:14 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-302 Thanks for your continuing work on this... I'm doing iPhone development using Cocos2d for iPhone, an objective c game library, and really like it, but I'd love if I could target more than one platform as haxe does. I built and installed some sample apps using the process you detailed in a previous post, but have only gotten 3-4 fps so far, which I assume is because it's still using SDL. Are you're working on OpenGL support? And if so, do you have a guesstimate as to when it'll be available? The reason I ask is you mention you were getting some great frame rates (51-69fps) for the Physaxe test... Was this only in the simulator? Thanks for your continuing work on this… I’m doing iPhone development using Cocos2d for iPhone, an objective c game library, and really like it, but I’d love if I could target more than one platform as haxe does.

I built and installed some sample apps using the process you detailed in a previous post, but have only gotten 3-4 fps so far, which I assume is because it’s still using SDL.

Are you’re working on OpenGL support? And if so, do you have a guesstimate as to when it’ll be available?

The reason I ask is you mention you were getting some great frame rates (51-69fps) for the Physaxe test… Was this only in the simulator?

]]> By: Gary Suyemoto http://gamehaxe.com/2009/08/17/switched-to-immix-for-internal-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Gary Suyemoto Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:32:41 +0000 http://gamehaxe.com/?p=230#comment-301 Huge, what do you think of the news about Flash CS5 being capable of compiling to native iPhone apps? Sounds interesting, but doubt it would be able to outperform haXe... http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/10/adobe-adds-iphone-native-app-creation.html Huge, what do you think of the news about Flash CS5 being capable of compiling to native iPhone apps? Sounds interesting, but doubt it would be able to outperform haXe…

http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/10/adobe-adds-iphone-native-app-creation.html

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