On 5 April 2011 21:29, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> To the contrary, I'd expect JavaScript in the most recent version of > any browser (even IE) to be *much* faster than PHP, maybe ten times > faster on real-world tasks. All browsers now use JIT compilation for > JavaScript, and have been competing intensively on raw JavaScript > speed for the last three years or so. There are no drop-in > alternative PHP implementations, so PHP is happy sticking with a > ridiculously slow interpreter forever. So if we machine-translate the parser into JS, we can get the user to do the work and everyone wins! [*] (Magnus, did you do something like this for WYSIFTW?) - d. [*] if they're using a recent browser on a recent computer, etc etc, ymmv. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
