[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-11-15 Thread Gordon
Just because the code is open source doesn't mean there's no usage restrictions in what you can do with it. Most open source licenses take a dim view of using open source code in closed source commercial software, as there's always a risk that if it was allowed then the commercial organization

[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-11-14 Thread Derek Gathright
I just randomly came across this Ajaxian podcast episode from a while back that answers the very question I posed. http://ajaxian.com/archives/audible-ajax-episode-20-project-tamarin Interestingly, Adobe open-sourced their JIT implementation of Javascript after a 3 year complete rewrite, and

[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-11-08 Thread Amnon
On Oct 1, 11:51 pm, Derek Gathright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...  With Firefox 3 having SQLite (rumored) embedded and Google releasing Gears, the capabilities are endless for developers using the browser as the platform/OS for on and offline applications.  That is going to require much more

[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-10-02 Thread Robert Koberg
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 16:46 -0700, John Beppu wrote: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-engine-speeds/ Very interesting! I have been using rhino for a week or so. When I started looking at the results, it was very disappointing. Then I got to the real world examples. Why does rhino shine there

[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-10-02 Thread Derek Gathright
Thanks for the link, interesting stuff. After looking through info on Rhino, I was left with the question... why build the JS core engine in Java and not a non-interpreted language? Then I looked at info in Spidermonkey (a C re-write for Firefox 3) and saw they realized the same thing.

[jQuery] Re: What causes the speed bottleneck in Javascript?

2007-10-01 Thread John Beppu
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-engine-speeds/