[lively-kernel] Google Crankshaft (Re: Nitro?)

[Antero Taivalsaari]

Closely related to this topic:

Google's new Crankshaft compiler will be a standard
feature in Chrome 10 (the next major public release):

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html

Microsoft's Chakra VM in IE9 looks promising, too.

The race is still on...

-- Antero

> Thanks for the info. I'm eager to try it out. In the not so far future
> Lively should run faster on Mobile Safari anyway.
>
> Best,
> Robert
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
>
>> It would seem Safari is getting a new JS engine. Apple is touting "up to
>> twice" the performance in Safari; that's almost certainly not coming out
>> of a macro benchmark, though, so I strongly doubt that anyone with an
>> app will see that much of a boost.
>>
>> All the same, faster JS might be good for Lively on iOS, where perf is
>> currently more pain than I can tolerate for more than a few minutes at a
>> time.
>>
>> This is supposed to be coming with iOS 4.3.
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