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Why can't they just use v8 or spidermonkey? Why invest time on creating something that will be only marginally superior (maybe?) than current open source techno
by dudus 12y ago
Why can't they just use v8 or spidermonkey? Why invest time on creating something that will be only marginally superior (maybe?) than current open source technologies?
- sp332 12y agoThe people who wrote v8 and spidermonkey are busy writing new things too.
- azakai 12y agoIt's great that Apple has smart engineers working on this. It's trying out a new approach that neither v8 or spidermonkey have - to use LLVM as a 4th tier JIT. This is how interesting things happen. The world would be a poorer place if we had fewer independent implementations, as each has its own design and architecture.
- stcredzero 12y agoto use LLVM as a 4th tier JIT So, what if this led to a bytecode derived from LLVM IR becoming a universal bytecode for the web?
- matthewmacleod 12y agoBear in mind that JavascriptCore is also open-source. There's absolutely no damage caused by having a diverse number of implementations!