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Let's presume that the world can be convinced of the safety of native client security. What's it worth? I think this is the same question as, "What kinds of t
by ShabbyDoo 17y ago
Let's presume that the world can be convinced of the safety of native client security. What's it worth? I think this is the same question as, "What kinds of things aren't good enough on the JVM or CLR?"
Modeling/Simulation/etc. certainly benefits from running on the metal. But, with the exception of SETI@Home, etc., nobody runs untrusted simulation code. Games are the obvious target. A webby sort of Photoshop might also benefit. What else?
Am I wrong to think it obvious that Google's goal is to do away with the last major reason(s) to run Windows? Is there any other benefit to being so close to the metal when we have nice, sandboxed VMs that JIT compile quite efficient code?
- wmf 17y agoPrevious discussion of this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=390555 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=390555 My arguments for NaCl: 1. Rewriting C code in Java is expensive. 2. JITs do a poor job on SIMD code that is used in multimedia.
- endergen 17y agoWith this new found power you could have custom built codecs for videos/audio. This would change a lot. Other cool uses, would be basically turning user's computers into grid computing nodes. Oh, and of course now being to have any language run in the browser as long as you can get it's code ported to work on their modified compiler.