From: Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>
To: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] interprocess messages
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 23:01:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141209230120.GS14122@toaster.adamthompson.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9x4vms5.fsf@the-brannons.com>
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:57:30AM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:
>
> > and compiling js code into native cpu code for speed.
> > Really? A true js compiler?
>
> I'm not sure how familiar you are with Google Docs, but they've
> implemented a word processor, spread sheet, and presentation
> manager as web apps. So they definitely have an interest in making all
> this stuff fast. Also, on devices like the ChromeBook, the OS is
> basically the browser. Yeah, it's Linux under the hood, but unless you
> replace the software on it, you'll be doing everything through the
> browser.
Yeah, not to mention all the other websites which are following google's lead here.
However, I personally have reservations about it,
especially when people start trying to tell me how fast it is for doing proper
number crunching.
> And then there's just plain sillyness, like the x86 emulator implemented
> in JS. Yes, you can actually run Linux in an x86 emulator inside your
> browser. Why you'd want to do that is another question entirely.
Wow, I never new about the x86 thing.
I've heard of a lua vm written in js (again why?)
but an entire x86 setup's pushing things to the next level of wtf (however,
I kind of want to try it just once... primarily because it's so crazy).
>
> Regarding my earlier post about V8, here are some links
> describing the issues that Gentoo had with it.
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88222
> http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2013/11/when-libraries-you-use-are-moving-too.html
Yeah, these comments don't exactly encourage confidence that we'll be getting
anything much more maintainable.
> I'm not at all against the switch, if it will be nicer to deal with.
> But if we do switch, we probably want to bundle our own version of V8
> with edbrowse.
That sounds a bit painful as far as handling security issues goes tbh.
Cheers,
Adam.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-09 14:13 Karl Dahlke
2014-12-09 15:57 ` Chris Brannon
2014-12-09 23:01 ` Adam Thompson [this message]
2014-12-09 18:23 ` Adam Thompson
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2014-12-08 19:27 Karl Dahlke
2014-12-09 7:53 ` Adam Thompson
2014-12-09 11:06 ` Chris Brannon
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