ErikCorry

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by ErikCorry 15y ago
V8 has isolates already. They are intended to be used for implementing WebWorkers.
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
Maybe the fact that people would have noticed if they had replaced him in the sequels also strengthened his bargaining position.
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
So now we know the reason why he started all those companies. It's all part of "Hollywood Accounting". Also, of course, he started the companies in order to make some great films.
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
Lots of the stuff in this list is only available in Mozilla browsers. It's not part of the ECMAScript standard: yield Optional named function arguments let (in the 'remove an object from an array' example) "Convert a string into a charcode
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
No version of IE or Safari or Chrome has yield.
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
The headline from the Guardian was one of their masterstrokes: "Rust tarnishes Soviet ring of steel"
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
I am very sceptical about an approach that concentrates on code generation and punts GC to later. My experience is that you can always improve the code generation later, but the early decisions you make about GC will be with your forever.
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
Speaking only for myself as ever: Handling out of memory errors is a hard problem. At the point when you can't allocate more memory you are busted in most languages. For example in C a slightly deeper function call depth can cause the sta
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by ErikCorry 15y ago
I agree, but I do have one nitpick: I've seen this suggestion several places, but I don't really think it's accurate to say that JS engine improvements are levelling off. See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html
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by ErikCorry 16y ago
V8/Chrome uses the constructor as a big part of the heuristic that determines the 'hidden class' of an object. The other part of the heuristic is the names and ordering of the properties on the object. Unfortunately, JSlint creates all its