[ale] OT: JS engine

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 12:27:36 EST 2013


What would the point be? V8 and the like already compile to native code.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> In todays computers besides main CPU there is plenty of additional
> chips helping this CPU in various tasks (GPU, video processor etc.).
> Do you think at some point moving java script engine into the hardware
> would be possible? It should be chip with loadable firmware. There is
> variety of JS engines in use today.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine


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