On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:07 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?)
Nope, all hand-rolled, just like my last 50 or so parser wannabe implementations ;-) (this one has the advantage of a "dunno what this is, just keep the wikitext" fallback, which helped a lot) Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
