On 04/11/2017 07:22 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > 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? :) >
I was referring to the half written in javascript :-P, granted most of these are just slightly glorified web pages with notifications but still. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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