Les parties en gras le sont par moi. Ça fait écho à la fois à une discussion que j'ai eu avec Bruno durant SPLASH et aux objectifs de Photon.

/The Atlantis kernel only defines a narrow, low-level API that provides basic services like network I/O, screen rendering, and the execution of abstract syntax trees [1] that respect same-origin security policies. Each web page composes these basic services to define a richer high-level runtime that is completely controlled by that page./

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/We envision that in many cases, web pages will customize a third-party implementation of the current HTML/CSS stack that was written in pure JavaScript and compiled to Atlantis ASTs./

Contribution

/We provide a demonstration web stack that is written in pure JavaScript and contains an HTML parser, a layout engine, a DOM tree, and so on./ /This stack takes advantage of our new scripting engine, called Syphon, which provides several language features that make it easier to create application-defined runtimes (§3.3). We show that our prototype Syphon engine *is fast enough* to execute application-defined layout engines and GUI event handlers. We also demonstrate *how easy it is to extend* our demonstration web stack./

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In Proceeding SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles