Intel's App Game Interface (AGI) is a JavaScript execution environment used to accelerate the execution of HTML5 Canvas tag commands. This post briefly describes the innovations included in the new release.

Intel continues to improve our free HTML5 Development Environment tools. Our goal is to help you the HTML5 app developer do more with your apps with less resources. We continue to innovate on your behalf to give you the edge. Here is a list of new features delivered in the June 2013 release of the HTML5 Development Environment.

When I first started using C++, it was still essentially a preprocessor that produced C code. I liked that because if I was really confused about a particular feature, I could examine the C code to figure out how it worked. The features that I found most interesting in C++ could be broken into two categories: Polymorphism and Encapsulation. Polymorphism is just a fancy way of saying that a given function or operation can work on different types, the way addition can be performed on both integers and floating point types.

So what do you do when you want the functionality of a static variable in Javascript? As previously discussed, using a global instead of a static is not a great idea. One might be tempted to use some sort of naming scheme to distinguish global vars, intended to be used as static, from others (e.g. '_static_i'), but that really doesn't solve the problem because two different functions might end up with similar static vars overwriting each other.