Alessio Stalla wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:46:15PM +0100: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Martin Cracauer > <craca...@itasoftware.com> wrote: > > Alessio Stalla wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 05:38:03PM +0100: > >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Alexander Repenning > >> <ra...@cs.colorado.edu> wrote: > >> > One point made: > >> > > >> >> It?s probably faster than most dynamic languages. > >> > > >> > is still mostly true but as I am tracking the speed of JavaScript versus > >> > Common Lisp I can see a scary performance cross over point > in the near > >> > future (months). > >> > >> Are there big systems written in JS? > > > > All Mozilla products. > > Mozilla products are in C++. Only the GUI is scripted in JS (XUL). And > handling GUI events is not high-performance computing in my book ;)
I wish, maybe then the thing wouldn't be so atrocious :-) There's almost a million lines of Javascript in Firefox and you spend most of your CPU time in Mozilla's Javascript code. The actual rendering is C++ but the rendering time is Firefox's least problem. Martin -- Martin Cracauer, Programmer, ITA Software Inc, 617-714-2130 _______________________________________________ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro