From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ace7fab302e01632bf26fc5cfc6c6d5@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:03:02 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Writing device drivers In-Reply-To: <549c814d7d27c530a83808843de00619@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37146390-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >i was thinking of writing a javascript to bytecode compiler -- >think rc split into a compiler and an execution unit. that's what charon's does, and surely the others don't do otherwise? but that emphasises the real problem: ecmascript+java/jscript extensions is the tiniest part of the least of your worries when implementing `javascript'. it's similar to compiling C to Dis: in many ways that's not too hard but it's what people expect that will then do that creates the consternation.