[Python-ideas] Javascript Destructuring Assignment
Josiah Carlson
jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Mar 6 19:25:30 CET 2007
"Jason Orendorff" <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me, the interesting development on the JavaScript front is Tamarin,
> the new JavaScript VM contributed by Adobe. Tamarin contains a
> just-in-time compiler.
>
> I don't know how many people here have seriously looked at the
> JavaScript engine, but it's not *that* different from Python. I know
> compiling to machine code has been discussed here, and the consensus
> is that it's not worth it. I'm wondering: how can this be right for
> JavaScript and wrong for Python? Is Mozilla making a mistake?
For reference: psyco is a JIT compiler for Python, and I believe PyPy
has a JIT compiler (or possibly could, as I believe it has a backend for
LLVM, what is used to generate object code in GCC/G++).
- Josiah
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