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"SquirrelFish Extreme" sounds like the kind of software product name that The Onion would come up with. err, yeah, faster JavaScript is good. Hope that Microso

"SquirrelFish Extreme" sounds like the kind of software product name that The Onion would come up with. err, yeah, faster JavaScript is good. Hope that Microsoft finally wake up and do something about theirs.

tlrobinson 18y ago
"SquirrelFish Extreme" sounds like the kind of software product name that The Onion would come up with. ...or, somewhat surprisingly, Apple. (Airport Extreme, Quartz Extreme)
joshwa 18y ago
Reminds me of Firesomething: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/31 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/31
maximilian 18y ago
The problem with the "Extreme" moniker is specifically: What do you call the next "version"? Squirrelfish Turbo? Super Squirrelfish Extreme? Squirrelfish this? I think this is why they invented version numbers, but of course, those get annoying after a while too. Isn't that why microsoft went to dates with office? Squirrelfish 2009 (which of course is released in the summer of 2008) Its pretty kickass though. I've been reading some of the literature on interpreter design lately because of all this javascript hype. Its really great stuff, and the basics are surprisingly simple to understand. I really love that they post their references along with the posts so we, the adoring public, can do some further reading on how they did what they did.
- nostrademons 18y ago
  After this, they go to key combinations on a Symbolics keyboard: Squirrelfish Super, Squirrelfish Meta, Squirrelfish Hyper, Squirrelfish Super-Meta, Squirrelfish Super-Hyper-Meta, etc.
  - LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
    You could go the Japanese anime/game route too. Neo Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish X2. Squirrelfish Alpha. Melty Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish Z. Squirrelfish EX. Super Ultra Hyper Squirrelfish Turbo Edition A2. It's got a certain ring to it.
whacked_new 18y ago
Heh, I bet MS is gonna call theirs something with "Silver" in it, and market it like its from a product suite.
- andyking 18y ago
  I'd hate to come face-to-face with a Silverfish Extreme. Eww.
- StrawberryFrog 18y ago
  This is not as outlandish as it sounds; the easiest way for MS to get high-performance JavaScript would be to jit it onto the existing Silverlight in-browser VM, and use that VM's existing optimisation tricks.

tlrobinson 18y ago

"SquirrelFish Extreme" sounds like the kind of software product name that The Onion would come up with. ...or, somewhat surprisingly, Apple. (Airport Extreme, Quartz Extreme)

joshwa 18y ago

Reminds me of Firesomething: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/31 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/31

maximilian 18y ago

The problem with the "Extreme" moniker is specifically: What do you call the next "version"? Squirrelfish Turbo? Super Squirrelfish Extreme? Squirrelfish this? I think this is why they invented version numbers, but of course, those get annoying after a while too. Isn't that why microsoft went to dates with office? Squirrelfish 2009 (which of course is released in the summer of 2008) Its pretty kickass though. I've been reading some of the literature on interpreter design lately because of all this javascript hype. Its really great stuff, and the basics are surprisingly simple to understand. I really love that they post their references along with the posts so we, the adoring public, can do some further reading on how they did what they did.

nostrademons 18y ago
After this, they go to key combinations on a Symbolics keyboard: Squirrelfish Super, Squirrelfish Meta, Squirrelfish Hyper, Squirrelfish Super-Meta, Squirrelfish Super-Hyper-Meta, etc.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
  You could go the Japanese anime/game route too. Neo Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish X2. Squirrelfish Alpha. Melty Squirrelfish. Squirrelfish Z. Squirrelfish EX. Super Ultra Hyper Squirrelfish Turbo Edition A2. It's got a certain ring to it.

whacked_new 18y ago

Heh, I bet MS is gonna call theirs something with "Silver" in it, and market it like its from a product suite.

andyking 18y ago
I'd hate to come face-to-face with a Silverfish Extreme. Eww.
StrawberryFrog 18y ago
This is not as outlandish as it sounds; the easiest way for MS to get high-performance JavaScript would be to jit it onto the existing Silverlight in-browser VM, and use that VM's existing optimisation tricks.