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River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript

Posted by Soulskill on from the perpendicular-javascript-coming-soon dept.

mikejuk writes "Intel has just announced River Trail, an extension of JavaScript that brings parallel programming into the browser. The code looks like JavaScript and it works with HTML5, including Canvas and WebGL, so 2D and 3D graphics are easy. A demo video shows an in-browser simulation going from 3 to 45 fps and using all eight cores of the processor. This is the sort of performance needed if 3D in-browser games are going to be practical. You can download River Trail as a Firefox add-on and start coding now. Who needs native code?"

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  1. Oblig by grub · · Score: 1, Funny


    What about a beowulf.js cluster of these?

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  2. Who needs native code? by nicholas22 · · Score: 5, Funny

    CPUs

  3. Re:Who needs native code by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    People who want their Windows 8 tablet to have a real world battery life longer than two hours?

    So, what - 4 or 5 people?

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  4. Re:Who needs native code by kelemvor4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    People who want their Windows 8 tablet to have a real world battery life longer than two hours?

    So, what - 4 or 5 people?

    I think you overestimate the sales potential for windows8 tablets.