Alessandro Pignotti’s project looks to be the start of something good to come. Lightspark Open Source Flash Player [github]has some really nice features that should influence the Flash Player and maybe even draw some interest from Adobe? Maybe it can be like the Moonlight player for Silverlight only broader.
One such awesome feature is OpenGL GLSL hardware rendered shaders for elements of flash. Flash has Pixel Bender which is pretty nice but having GLSL shaders and the use of OpenGL directly is great.
Features
- JIT compilation of ActionScript to native x86 bytecode using LLVM
- Hardware accelerated rendering using OpenGL Shaders (GLSL)
- Very good and robust support for current-generation ActionScript 3
- A new, clean, codebase exploiting multithreading and optimized for modern hardware. Designed from scratch after the official Flash documentation was released.