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I am not that person, but I can probably explain anyway. The whole point of the web is to be a common runtime. You can use it from any browser and any device. You avoid the situati…

Fitting to a statistical model superficially makes sense. But I think the details kill it. The outcome you are measuring is the change in test score from before having a teacher an…

I think this is pretty common. In fact, this can happen even if neither browser changes at all. Your profile builds up and your history searches etc. slow down, so you switch brows…

I don't want my bookmarking completely separated from browsers, but I would like it to sync to shared browser-portable cloud storage. I'd also like the distinction between tabs, bo…

I pointed my smile.amazon.com account at the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. (Which isn't entirely altruistic; I am employed by the Mozilla Corporation. But hey, I do support Mozilla…

I agree. IE kicked everyone else's butt first (in terms of market share), and the Web stagnated. Then Firefox kicked IE's butt, and the Web didn't stagnate quite as much, but let's…

Don't look at asm.js benchmarks if you're interested in real-world JS. Look at them if you want to know something about the performance of C++ code transpiled to run in a browser, …

I agree. If you accept the reasonable premise that incremental GC trades worse throughput for better latency, then splay-latency rewards low throughput. That isn't as awful as it s…

The main difference from what is shown in those slides is that V8 uses a semispace collector. The SpiderMonkey collector just has a single nursery. Jon Coppeard implemented a semis…

It has some impact on overall execution time (throughput), mostly through being able to bump allocate. The benchmark I used in the article shows a large gain, though the real-world…

[SpiderMonkey dev here. I remember the talk you gave at Mozilla, quite a good talk. I work on the GC much more than the compiler, which I don't know that much about, but I'm only g…

Reading the comments here suggests that it would be cool to use both of the chips together. If it is true that spiking does well with unsupervised learning, then you could feed a b…

Use a decent language like JavaScript. You are correct that terrible JavaScript is available and widely used, but all of the platforms support both, so you may as well use decent J…

That is what webrtc is for too, without the "proprietary" part.

What's the use of an uncategorized bookmark? I always drag the url into a bookmark folder in the toolbar (which I always have open; apparently come people hate that.) For uncategor…