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DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript

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Re: DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript

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Post by vegas » Tue, May 01, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #29

int3 wrote: post #2

I'm one of the authors. Doppio's not the first JVM in Javascript, but I believe we have the most extensive support for the JRE among the lot. In particular, we can run Rhino and the Java 4 compiler. Feel free to ask me any questions! Check out the demo here: http://int3.github.com/doppio/

Rhino on Doppoio on JavaScript has got to be the slowest thing in the world.

I can't upvote this comment, but JVM is the greatest of all time.

Re: DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript

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Post by davidrupp » Wed, May 02, 2012, 12:00 AM UTC

francoisdevlin wrote: post #22

No. Just no. The JVM is the only redeeming feature of Java (the language). You're nerfing the high performance features for what, exactly? A half assed tracing ability? "Write once, run anywhere"? Javascript won in the browser, move on.

The JVM rose to prominence in the browser, and it was not always known for its "high performance features". Quite the opposite. Doppio is cool if for nothing else than to demonstrate that this is possible at all. I can't wait to see where the team gets once it can optimize for performance.

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