On: Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

[s3graham]

It's translating to SVG, so there's "just" the script translation overhead, not rendering overhead. I think it's quite practical if maybe not especially useful given Flash penetration.

I wrote a Flash player for the PS2 ~9 years ago now that was fast enough. I'd say that current PCs + jitted JS are faster than that platform.

[timf → s3graham]

> there's "just" the script translation overhead, not rendering overhead

Ah that makes a lot more sense, thanks for pointing that out.