Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit

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.

Comments

SquirrelFish tastes like.....

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

chicken

Re:jython (take two)

[MightyYar]

Well, there's pyjamas, which does the same thing that Google Web Toolkit does, only with Python.

There's also a demo around somewhere of someone using PyPy to compile the Bubble Bobble game to Javascript from Python.