MBCook writes “Joa Ebert has started working on a new program called JITB. Announced in a talk at FITC San Fran, it’s a Flash player written to use the Java JVM to run ActionScript, and in a simple graphics test case (making 1 million flash.geom.Point) was 30x faster than Adobe’s Flash player. There is an impressive demo video on YouTube showing the point test.”

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Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM