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I can't believe it - Now I need to see what all this buzz is about. Could Silverlight from none other than MS be that good? Has anyone here tried it out? Wil
by gibsonf1 20y ago
I can't believe it - Now I need to see what all this buzz is about. Could Silverlight from none other than MS be that good? Has anyone here tried it out? Will MS now rise from the dead?
- jward 20y agoThe killer features I see with Silverlight is it's ability to run javascript four orders of magnitude faster than the current average browser. Firefox 3 is apparently taking Adobe's ECMA script engine which kicks the speed up a few notches, but for browsers on the market, this is amazing. The other one that makes me giddy is the fact that Silverlight can control the DOM outside of its shell... and I can code in Python.
- paul 20y agoI doubt that it actually runs JS four orders of magnitude faster. It may run JS 2-5 times faster, but 10,000 faster is very unlikely. I'd love to run some tests though -- is there a silverlight demo with a eval loop somewhere? (something I can type js into and see how fast it runs)
- Alex3917 20y agoThe video demo is pretty amazing. Sadly the plugin itself requires an Intel core duo processor.
- JMiao 20y agoSadly, this is probably Intel's doing. They're always looking for new reasons for users to upgrade their processors. Case in point: Microsoft Chrome.