Ha! After all the work I did to rip out Jython you want me to cast the compiler 
back into another dynamic language?

On 2009-12-02, at 13:27, Max Carlson wrote:

> I don't know about JVM vs JavaScriptCore/V8 performance.  But I do know that 
> Rhino has a lot of overhead when moving stuff across the Java/JavaScript 
> divide, which may have been a pain point.
> 
> Last night I was fantasizing about embedding Rhino in the compiler so we 
> could hack the AST with something more dynamic than Java.  Not sure how 
> practical that is, but it could be cool to play with when you're done with 
> all the compiler refactoring!
> 
> P T Withington wrote:
>> Which is kinda funny, since it is compiling to Java byte codes.
>> Does this mean that Javascript VM's are out-performing Java VM's these days?
>> On 2009-12-02, at 12:57, Max Carlson wrote:
>>> Yeah, I believe the original webtop server used Rhino.  Not sure why that 
>>> was scrapped in favor of 'Pure Java' - probably for performance. Rhino is 
>>> no where near some of the more modern JS engines in terms of performance...
>>> 
>>> P T Withington wrote:
>>>> They never would have slipped that by the Times editors!
>>>> I thought Adam's initial wt work used Javascript on the server?
>>>> On 2009-12-01, at 22:53, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>>> That is a thought-provoking article. And we do need some kind of a 
>>>>> standard
>>>>> module system...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I liked this quote
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> "In these post-QBasic times, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have become for 
>>>>> every
>>>>> ungainly, bespectacled troglodyte the gateway from social exile to deeper
>>>>> social exile."
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Max Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/12/commonjs-effort-sets-javascript-on-path-for-world-domination.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Interesting!  I'd love to be able to develop server-side code in
>>>>>> JavaScript.  I was just chatting with a friend (and OL developer) the 
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> day about being able to describe server-side behavior as part of LZX, and
>>>>>> have part of the application run on the server and part on the client.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So many possibilities!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Max Carlson
>>>>>> OpenLaszlo.org
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Henry Minsky
>>>>> Software Architect
>>>>> [email protected]
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>> Max Carlson
>>> OpenLaszlo.org
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org


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