Sunday, March 22, 2009
AmFast 0.2.2 Released!
The latest version of AmFast is out. Improvements include an Actionscript code generator, an example using the Twisted framework, and several bug fixes.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Flash and Python Presentation
On Friday I presented information about Flash and Python to several developers from iPlant.
The presentation covered the current state of Python tools designed to communicate with various flavors of Flash. I will be giving the same presentation to TuPLE this coming Tuesday.
Here are the slides.
The presentation covered the current state of Python tools designed to communicate with various flavors of Flash. I will be giving the same presentation to TuPLE this coming Tuesday.
Here are the slides.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
AmFast 0.2 Released!
Check out the latest version of AmFast. The 0.2 version implements AMF0, AMF3 and supports configurable remoting with NetConnection and RemoteObject.
It's fast, flexible, and easy to use.
It's fast, flexible, and easy to use.
Monday, March 2, 2009
AmFast Released!
I released the alpha version of AmFast today. AmFast is an AMF3 encoder/decoder Python extension.
Some un-sophisticated testing shows that AmFast is around ~18x quicker than PyAmf. 10,000 runs through the test_complex_encode_decode_dict() unit test takes ~105 seconds on my machine using PyAmf, and ~5.8 seconds using AmFast.
If you want to try it out, you can download the package from PyPi, and take a look at the meager documentation.
AmFast supports all of the data types that PyAmf does, but there is not yet any functionality for implementing remoting, or working with AMF0. I'm hoping that AmFast will be able to integrate into PyAmf, so that you can optionally use either the existing pure Python AMF3 encoder/decoder, or AmFast within the PyAmf framework.
This was my first time working with the Python C API, and I think it's pretty cool. Besides having to remember to increment and decrement Python object reference counts in the right spots, it was pretty easy to learn. I'm not anywhere near a C expert, and I wrote this extension in my spare time over the course of a couple of weeks.
Some un-sophisticated testing shows that AmFast is around ~18x quicker than PyAmf. 10,000 runs through the test_complex_encode_decode_dict() unit test takes ~105 seconds on my machine using PyAmf, and ~5.8 seconds using AmFast.
If you want to try it out, you can download the package from PyPi, and take a look at the meager documentation.
AmFast supports all of the data types that PyAmf does, but there is not yet any functionality for implementing remoting, or working with AMF0. I'm hoping that AmFast will be able to integrate into PyAmf, so that you can optionally use either the existing pure Python AMF3 encoder/decoder, or AmFast within the PyAmf framework.
This was my first time working with the Python C API, and I think it's pretty cool. Besides having to remember to increment and decrement Python object reference counts in the right spots, it was pretty easy to learn. I'm not anywhere near a C expert, and I wrote this extension in my spare time over the course of a couple of weeks.
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