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Other than 'for fun' - does this serve a commercial purpose? Looks very cool regardless
by inglor 12y ago
Other than 'for fun' - does this serve a commercial purpose?
Looks very cool regardless
- EvenThisAcronym 12y agoThe Higgs VM is part of Maxime Chevalier's PhD work.You can find her blog here: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/category/higgs/ http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/category/higgs/.
- grayrest 12y agoIt's a PhD research project. See the project overview page for specifics: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/ http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/
- agumonkey 12y agoIn some air.mozilla.org talk the author said that this research was very unconventional and if successfull could bring generic yet not marginal perf improvements in a lot of languages.
- glennsl 12y agolink: https://air.mozilla.org/higgs-jit/ https://air.mozilla.org/higgs-jit/
- jussij 12y ago> does this serve a commercial purpose? I'm sure the high paying job offers will be coming in thick and fast.
- tach4n 12y agoIt's a research project so it produces experience and, well, research that can be useful to commercial enterprises. Lots of companies have an interest in making dynamic languages faster. The project does have a secondary goal be a useful hobbyist platform and is making progress on that front. (disclaimer: I'm a minor contributor.)