On Wednesday 03 September 2008 14:23, Attila Szegedi wrote: > Well, we certainly live in interesting times, at least as far as > JavaScript runtimes go... > > Just recently, WebKit got SquirelFish. ... > > Then, Mozilla brings out TraceMonkey, ... > > Finally, yesterday Google unveils V8, which, ..., also > brings some intriguing new dynamic optimizations, like retroactively > creating classes for sufficiently similar objects and then optimizing > for these classes, which is a nice thing to do considering the source > language (JS) is classless.
I read the "press release" yesterday (probably the most informative comic I've ever seen, not that I'm a big comic book... I mean graphic novel reader) but I don't think I can see right off how inferring a class structure from a lot of instances with similar attribute structure helps a VM optimize execution. Has this issue been treated before? If so, could anyone supply a few references? It seems intriguing, but to me so far, only vacuously so. > ... > > Attila. Thanks. Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
