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JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland

Posted by timothy on from the layers-within-layers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The jor1k is an interesting open-source toy emulator project to emulate a 32-bit OpenRISC OR1000 processor, 63MB of RAM, ocfb frame-buffer, and ATA-hard drive ... all in JavaScript. Though JavaScript based, there are asm.js optimizations and the performance seems to be quite decent in modern web browsers. The jor1k OpenRISC emulator can do a lot, even handle running the Linux kernel, GCC compiler, ScummVM Monkey Island, and the Wayland/Weston compositor, all from within the web browser."

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  1. Same for x86 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, I guess everyone has read about the Javascript PC emulator :
    http://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html

  2. Just Stop. Please. It's Time to Stop. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remaking EVERYTHING in JS is a total, complete waste of time. There's a saying that everything that can be written in C will eventually be written in C. This makes sense because once it's in C, it's going to run really quickly. That little whatever that was re-written in C, even partially, is just about as good as it gets when it comes to responsive, low-overhead, user-space tools. JS will never get appreciably better than it is now without those improvements affecting all other dynamic languages in turn, and JS is not regarded as a mogul of excellent syntax, language features, or any of the other notable strengths of other languages. Anything written in JS will eventually need a re-write. Using Node for little async, concurrent server communication relatively a niche. Just stop. This JS nonsense is way out of hand.