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by xxgreg 13y ago
The pub package management tool allows you to fetch libraries from a git repo or the local filesystem, see here: http://pub.dartlang.org/doc/dependencies.html#git-packages
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by xxgreg 13y ago
@ChuckMcM The DartVM uses a method JIT which compiles the source code directly to machine code. An interpreter has a main loop which runs instructions one at a time. Wikipedia is a good place to start if you'd like to understand the differe
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by xxgreg 13y ago
I had a quick look at this. It appears the DartVM is now beating the JVM even at 100,000 iterations (Previously Java edged out Dart at higher iterations). 100,000 iterations takes ~45 seconds to run on my computer. At a lower number of iter
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by xxgreg 14y ago
If adding signatures to a codebase, why not use the closure syntax? Because then you also get a compiler which gives you nice warnings as well as better minification.
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by xxgreg 14y ago
These bits from the docs are really interesting. Can anyone here explain them in more detail? (I've also posted them as questions in moderator) "we’d like to explore even larger ideas like moving the entire Document Object Model (DOM) into
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by xxgreg 14y ago
You can already build Dart for Android, but it's x86 only. There is ongoing work to implement ARM (and MIPS?). Seems sensible for google to have some options similar to Java for both Android, and their in-house server-side code. (Oracle any
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by xxgreg 14y ago
On the Richards benchmark it's 1.9x. After 2 years this is pretty impressive. Due the nature of the Dart language the DartVM will make a number of optimizations possible that are not even possible in V8. So it will be a better platform for
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by xxgreg 14y ago
When using dart2js, you can split a program into multiple chunks, and load them separately[1]. But you need to set this up before compiling, so that's not useful for sharing a library on a CDN. I think people often use javascript libs on a
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by xxgreg 14y ago
The DartVM has supported for typed arrays too, so it probably wouldn't be much work to hack emscripten to generate Dart source code. It would be very interesting to see a benchmark of emscripten/SomethingMonkey/asm.js vs emscripten/DartVM.
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by xxgreg 14y ago
You can pull a 10 tonne yacht with one hand on a rope. Try pulling a 10 tonne truck... Also according to the US Transportation Energy Book, waterbourne transport more than a order of magnitude more efficient than road freight, and about 50%
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by xxgreg 14y ago
Not ~5%GDP. "the country will spend somewhere between $125 billion and "$250 billion on infrastructure expansion and subsidies in the next eight years—between 3.5 and 7 percent of Germany's 2011 GDP" The sentence is a bit confusing but I th
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by xxgreg 15y ago
Californias household energy use has been flat since the 70s due to efficiency programs.