This is quite interesting, but I imagine that Flash interpreting C programs isn't all that speedy. It would be nice for browsers to ship a nice-n-fast VM that I could allow applications to use. For some reason, I don't think the JVM is The Right Thing (it's been tried for years and it never worked), but LLVM or Parrot might be nice.

First, though, we need to start compiling higher-level languages to LLVM bytecode. Is anyone working on anything like that currently? (A coworker and I are "planning" to make the Perl optree run on LLVM, but haven't gotten around to that yet. I also want to compile emacs as a library that runs on LLVM, and then compile elisp down to LLVM bytecode. That would make emacs nice-n-fast, and open the door to writing emacs extensions in whatever language you want. All of these are just ideas currently. Motivation / helpers would be nice ;)