For those that think JavaScript makes a good VM format for the web, I've written a couple blog posts recently on this topic: http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/nativ

For those that think JavaScript makes a good VM format for the web, I've written a couple blog posts recently on this topic: http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/native-client-is-widely-misunderstood-and-what-google-should-do-about-it/ http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/native-client-is-widely-misunde... http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/digging-into-javascript-performance/ http://chadaustin.me/2011/01/digging-into-javascript-perform... Basically, we need another 10x to 30x in performance for JavaScript to match native code performance...