6 Avr
2011
6 Avr
'11
21:46
On 2011-04-06, at 8:20 PM, chevalma@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
(remember what Andreas said about Firefox... one of the reasons it is not implemented more in JS is that the startup time is currently too large).
I also have to add, the reason why Firefox has an issue with the load time w.r.t. JS code is most likely that they *do not* precompile the said JS code.
Our compiler will be compiled, and so is theirs. The hope is to be able to compile applications to an executable, but there are many hurdles to pass to make this practical in real applications like a browser made of many modules possibly loaded on demand. So I think that the first use-case for Tachyon in real applications will be very close to what Firefox does currently.
Marc