Sure Oliver, it's just funny to read very old unmaintained libraries as the base code to test LLVM IR on top ... what you say makes sense but then I'd expect some new library maybe based on some new ES5 feature too, that's all I was trying to say and there was nothing about criticizing the awesome job WebKit did there.
Take Care On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 15, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > but you mentioned very old one I think nobody cares much anymore ;-) > > People may not “care” about them today, but that doesn’t mean that no one > uses them - there are many millions of webpages that use these libraries > still, and that means performance of those libraries is extremely important > to end _users_. > > Regarding the original topic of this thread: I think there have been many > many prior discussions of a standardised bytecode on es-discuss, and people > should really be reading those before bringing this up again. It’s not > going to happen as no one has ever demonstrated an actual benefit over > simply using JS. > > —Oliver
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