On 1/23/13 8:10 PM, Grant Holland wrote:
How do you square your pro-HTML5 position with Facebook's backtracking
om HTML5 - and returning to the world of actual applications?
Page 20 of http://syntensity.com/static/splashpres.pdf gives a sense of
where just in time compilers for JavaScript are relative to GCC.
Basically within a factor of 3 of C.
The latest Mozilla has a new JIT called IonMonkey that is faster.
Think of JavaScript as a macro language on top of an in-memory
assembler. Add typed arrays, and there's no reason why JavaScript can't
at least be as fast as Java.
A classic example: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Marcus
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