Tag Archives: hxcpp

3 Years On

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Huge

Wow, has it really been 3 years? 2009 was an interesting year – I guess the big ticket items were haxe for the iPhone and getting hxcpp into the standard distribution for haxe. I am very satisfied with these achievements, … Continue reading →

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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 iPhone (Simulator) – First Look

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Huge

The c++ backend for haxe generates standard c++, suitable for the gcc compiler. iPhone dev uses gcc, and can link against c++, which make you think that iPhone dev can use haxe. Simple? Well, actually it was pretty simple. The … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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