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   Speculative History & Future of H.264 & WebM (syntensity.blogspot.com)

   4 points by azakai 16y ago|2 comments
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   by azakai 16y ago

   > I often read that a side-effect of a antidepressant is heightened suicidal feelings. That completely mystifies me. Isnt it exactly what it is supposed to be working against ? That's ironic, but not odd. For example, treatments for sto
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   by azakai 16y ago

   1. LLVM is not portable. PNaCl is trying to make it so, but it's a work in progress. 2. A 'universal' payload with ARM and x86, would just work on them. What if in 5 years we have new architectures? Only supporting ARM and x86 would hold
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   by azakai 16y ago

   > Having recently done some benchmarking of my own code, and from simply running the browsers side-by-side a fair bit, this doesn't surprise me a bit. Firefox 4 consistently comes out 3x slower or worse than Chrome/Safari It really depe
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   by azakai 16y ago

   That used to be said about audio, and now DRM-free music is the norm. Why can't we have DRM-free video? We should.
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   by azakai 16y ago

   Here's Brendan Eich (creator of JS) talking about something even simpler, a bytecode standard for JS in browsers, http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101122 and here is him talking on HN about JS vs Python, Lua etc. in browsers, ht
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   by azakai 16y ago

   You make it sound like they were incompetent, lazy or evil. Or perhaps I misunderstood you, sorry if so. But the fact is, they did think a lot about using other languages on the web, and about proper ILs as well. The fact is, there has be
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   by azakai 16y ago

   > Umm...are there any reasons, other than the JVM, to use Java? I'd much rather write plain old JS (or even better, CoffeeScript) than Java any day. Existing code. I agree that writing JavaScript is better in almost all cases, but there
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   by azakai 16y ago

   IE9 supports WebGL, according to that site...?
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    by azakai 16y ago

    Syntensity moved from Python to JavaScript as an embedded scripting language, http://www.syntensity.com/toplevel/intensityengine/ worked out very well there. Of course the real examples are... web browsers, which are C++ apps that are scr
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    by azakai 16y ago

    Thanks for the feedback in the comments here! I made a few fixes to Emscripten, and the code that was mentioned that doesn't work, should now work in the demo, for example |for x = 1,10 do print(x) end|.
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    by azakai 16y ago

    I put up the demo after seeing that some simple stuff worked, like x = 10 print(x+25) etc., but I didn't test the compiled interpreter a lot more. Probably the statement you tried doesn't work because some stdlib function needs to be implem
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    by azakai 16y ago

    In principle it should be possible to get Rubinius to work with Emscripten - I'd be excited to see that happen. In fact it should work better than compiling a language's VM (which is what happens in the Lua demo). But it will be hard to do