Subj : Re: Whats about a JIT? To : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng From : Clemens Eisserer Date : Sat Oct 18 2003 10:41 pm Hi again! > Those two paragraphs are not unrelated, as the "Of course" seems to > imply. The reason for Rhino beating SM is precisely the great Java JITs > (there are others than Sun's). I know... > Also: given Mono, Parrot (the new Perl/Python/Ruby dynamic language > JIT'ing runtie, under construction), and other efforts I'm forgetting, > why would anyone want to do an ad-hoc JIT for SpiderMonkey? Perhaps > licensing requirements may force the issue, but I'd much rather see > someone check out Parrot, and do a SpiderMonkey front end to Parrot back > end if that makes sense. Your probably right. Hmm, I know Parrot and its really cool, althought it unstable and the interfaces etc. are still changing. IŽll tinker a bit with it :-) lg Clemens .