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Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit

Posted by timothy on from the zippity-zappity dept.

JavaScript is everywhere these days. Now WebKit, the framework behind (among others) Safari and Safari Mobile, as well as the yet-unreleased Android, is getting a new JavaScript engine called Squirrelfish, which the developers claim provides massive speedups over the previous one. The current iteration of the engine is "just the beginning," they claim; in the near future, six planned optimizations should bring even greater speed. With JavaScript surviving as a Web-page mainstay despite many early gripes, and now integral to some low-powered mobile devices, this may mean many fewer wasted seconds in the world.

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  1. I highly doubt fewer wasted seconds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    as I'm sure we can all find plenty of other places to waste the seconds saved :P

  2. squirrelfish? by the+donner+party · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's next? rabbitelephant? curvaceous coelacanth? fishfishfishrabbitfish? We desperately need an automatic "hip open source software name generator" before someone gets hurt.

    1. Re:squirrelfish? by prog-guru · · Score: 2, Funny

      What's next? rabbitelephant? curvaceous coelacanth? fishfishfishrabbitfish? duckduckgoose
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      chris@xanadu:~$ whatis /.
      /.: nothing appropriate.

  3. Great name by szquirrel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Truly the 200X decade will be remembered as the "Decade of Retarded Technology Names".

    Did someone make a rule that every new tech has to have a name that would make me sound like a fucking idiot if I tried to pitch it to my boss?

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    1. Re:Great name by smoker2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Truly the 200X decade will be remembered as the "Decade of Retarded Technology Names". So says szquirrel on slashdot.
    2. Re:Great name by AlXtreme · · Score: 2, Funny

      Did someone make a rule that every new tech has to have a name that would make me sound like a fucking idiot if I tried to pitch it to my boss?


      You obviously haven't had to explain to a CEO why the company runs on Eunuchs. Kids these days have it far too easy.
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