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by sphink 12y ago
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 situation where you prefer browser X because it has some feature th
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by sphink 12y ago
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 and after. VAM attempts to statistically estimate the teacher&
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by sphink 12y ago
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 browsers and get a clean profile to start with. Repeat. (I'm
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by sphink 12y ago
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, bookmarks, and history to go away and be replaced by
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by sphink 12y ago
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's mission; what can I say?)
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by sphink 12y ago
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 be honest -- it stagnated. At the momen
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by sphink 12y ago
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, which is an interesting thing to know. And it&#x27
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by sphink 12y ago
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 sounds, it's just that there's nothing in the
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by sphink 12y ago
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 semispace collector for SpiderMonkey, but the added complexity ma
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by sphink 12y ago
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 effect is much less. But GGC is mostly about reducing pause
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by sphink 12y ago
[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 going to talk about the compiler. Ironic, given tha
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by sphink 12y ago
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 bunch of input to a spiker, then scan it for components that
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by sphink 12y ago
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 JavaScript instead. :-)
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by sphink 12y ago
That is what webrtc is for too, without the "proprietary" part.
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by sphink 12y ago
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 uncategorized stuff, well, I guess that's why I have 300+ t