On 2010-12-07, at 17:13 , Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
I think we should cancel the Tachyon project... I'll give a call to
the Mozilla people to let them know there's no point in coming to meet with us. ;-)
Sarcasm carries very poorly by e-mail.
Since I'm being asked to come up with something major and novel by the end of my Ph.D., perhaps you should understand why these announcements make me uncomfortable. The novelty factor kind of goes away if somebody beats me to the punch by a couple of months/years.
I've said this before, but optimistic optimizations are not really a novelty. Most JITs will do that to a certain extent. I think the specific (optimistic) optimizations you'll come up with for JS will be your contribution. We're not building a product, we're exploring research ideas to see how far we can push the envelope. There are plenty of ideas to try, I'm not really worried about V8 at the moment.
Bruno