On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:58:58 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > > > On 04/11/2017 04:19 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:01:49 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > > <barbi...@gmail.com> said: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:25:39 -0700 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> said: > >>> > >>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > >>>> <barbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: > >>>>>> On 04/10/2017 12:39 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > >>>>>>> Which brings me to my last point: we should adopt and use for REAL a > >>> one possible option is to jump behind the transpiler bandwagon. what about > >>> writing a js -> lua transpiler? this should be not that hard given the > >>> incredible similarity in the 2 languages. you can then write in lua or in > >>> js. just you need a compile step for js. perhaps we should also have a > >>> compile step for lua anyway? at least minify it for faster parsing > >>> etc....? > >> > >> isn't jerryscript good enough? Seems pretty small, not sure if they're > >> focusing on efficiency as much as ram/disk. > > > > jerryscript is interpreted only - no jit, so it's going to have a fairly big > > performance hit vs something jitted. if the point is to write more and more > > in such a language you want it to be as performant as possible. it can be > > more performant with a jit... so you'd want that. > > > > I'll be controversial and say that for many Desktop UI applications and > probably for a lot of smartphone ones as well performance really doesn't > matter that much, its not like were running these things on a 386, So I > guess sometimes less performant languages have other benefits which is > why people use them.
then why does android precompile java apps to native code on installation now as opposed to just keep interpreting? :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
