Author Archives: Huge

WWX Conference

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Huge

I recently got back from ‘WWX’, the World Wide Haxe conference. I had a fantastic time – got to meet a whole bunch of people from the community. I gave a presentation about the architecture and some details of the … Continue reading →

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Multi-Language-Bench

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Huge

I noticed that Google have a site that compares a few languages using a graph traversal benchmark. http://code.google.com/p/multi-language-bench/. So I thought it would be interesting to see how haxe/hxcpp fares. I started with a direct (ie, almost line-for-line) translation of … Continue reading →

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NME From Scratch

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Huge

Part 1 – Get The Basics Going I’ve just got a shiny new computer at home – nothing installed. So it seems like a good chance to go through exactly what it takes to get and NME sample up and … Continue reading →

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NME Font Rendering

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Huge

I notice FreeType has a new version out, which has some reasonable changes since a key patent has expired. Version 2.3.9, Default Version 2.3.9, AutoHinting Version 2.4.4, Default Version 2.4.4, AutoHinting Flash (Mac) GDI Threshold (Current) GDI AA GDI AA … Continue reading →

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Four Years – Still Kicking

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Huge

Wow, I missed the 4-year anniversary. I have been a bit remiss in updating the old social-media postings of late, but will try harder. So apologies to those whose comments I have not answered, and I hope to do better … Continue reading →

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Android + HXCPP – a Quickstart Guide

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Huge

After having some success with making an Xcode template, I thought it would be relatively easy make something similar for eclipse and Android. However, there was nothing but pain for me when I tried, so instead I’ve decided to write … Continue reading →

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Minor Updates

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Huge

I have just released a few minor updates to nme + hxcpp, which you can find on haxelib. These are relatively small \- just pushing out a few fixes for some bugs that have been reported. In most cases the … Continue reading →

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New Releases!

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Huge

Finally, I’ve managed to make a few more releases. Namely, HXCPP 2.06 and NME 2.0. HXCPP can be downloaded via “haxelib”, and works with the new 2.06 version of haxe. This release contains many bug fixes and optimizations. Also, when … Continue reading →

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Android Port – Second Look

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Huge

I have looked into some of the performance aspects of the Android port, and I’ve come to some conclusions. Firstly, after looking at the disassembly, there did not seem to be any additional code associated with exception handling, so there … Continue reading →

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Android Port – First Light

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Huge

I bought myself and Android (2.1) HTC Legend phone. Obviously, the first thing I wanted to do was to get haxe/NME running on it. Now the Android platform is very well setup for Java development but, unfortunately, the haxe Java … Continue reading →

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