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I think Google is actually thinking javascript is going to be the base machine language of the browser. They seem to be investing a lot of effort on the V8 engi

by huherto 17y ago

I think Google is actually thinking javascript is going to be the base machine language of the browser. They seem to be investing a lot of effort on the V8 engine. http://code.google.com/p/v8/ http://code.google.com/p/v8/

amichail 17y ago
Why would Google think such a thing when Silverlight has better tech? Why not build a Silverlight competitor?
- txxxxd 17y ago
  See: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
  - amichail 17y ago
    Not much of an API though.
ShabbyDoo 17y ago
Does V8 compile to a bytecode similar to Java? I know that it does JIT compilation to native code and then caches it for future use. If it happens to have a bytecode representation, we could read the Google tealeaves and conclude that Google sees compiled JavaScript as an ugly steppingstone toward a binary representation of client-side code.
- andreyf 17y ago
  Does V8 compile to a bytecode similar to Java? AFAIK, not any remotely standardized bytecode, no. Of course, there are some data structures in between the strings of characters and the native code, but I don't think there's any talk of guaranteeing anything that would warrant calling them "byte code". Aside: Lars Bak is the lead developer on V8, and was the lead on HotSpot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)