Tag Archives: Haxe

Switched to IMMIX for Internal Garbage Collection

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Huge

I did a little bit of profiling on the iPhone and found a bit too much time was spent doing garbage collection. The hxcpp runtime has 2 modes – “Boehm GC with explicit statics” and “internal”. The former is from … Continue reading →

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Haxe, iPhone & C++ At Last

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Huge

Announcing first official release of c++ on haxe, including Widsows, Mac, Linux and iPhone support. Continue reading →

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Haxe on the iPhone – For Real!

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Huge

To progress this project a bit further, I needed a real device – so I convinced the little woman that an iPod touch would be a good thing to have around. She seems to have taken to it, so now … Continue reading →

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A Second Look (iPhone + Haxe)

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Huge

Once the basics are in place, the rest comes pretty naturally. Just a slight tweak to the MovieClip transformation gets Physaxe doing it’s thing. Performace seems ok-ish in the simulator, not sure how it woud go on the real device.

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Some Help Getting Started With Hxcpp

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Huge

Tony at touchmypixel.com has posted some very useful information to help you get started with hxcpp. Be sure to go over there and check it out.

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Haxe3D C++ Demo.

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Huge

Nicolas Cannasse has written a 3D engine for flash 10. I have ported this code to neko and c++ using the neash library. To test the code, first extract the contents of the zip and then look in the bin … Continue reading →

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Hxcpp 0.4, NME 0.9, Neash 0.9 Released!

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Huge

What the flash? What is Hxcpp? Hxcpp is the c++ backend for haxe. This means you can compile haxe code to c++ code, and then compile this to a native executable, for Windows, Linux or Mac. What is NME? NME … Continue reading →

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Haxe Preloader For Flash – Written in Haxe.

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Huge

There has been some talk about creating flash preloaders for haxe. However, these methods step outside the haxe toolchain and add some additional complication. I have come up with a reasonably simple method for creating a haxe preloader in haxe, … Continue reading →

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HXCPP 0.3 Released

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Huge

I have put together a new version of hxcpp, the c++ backend for haxe. New features include improved coverage of language features. All the unit tests except remoting pass now. I have also cleaned up the ocaml code a bit … Continue reading →

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HXCPP 0.2 – Huge performance increase.

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Huge

I have switched hxcpp over from using ref-counting to using Boehm garbage collection. I have also added some additional perfromance improvements, such as integer-index field names to make interaction with neko more efficient. The overall result is that for the … Continue reading →

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