Simon Willison’s Weblog

SquirrelFish. WebKit’s JavaScript engine was no slouch, but that hasn’t stopped them from replacing it with a brand new “register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention”. It runs 1.6x faster and has the Best Logo Ever.

# 3rd June 2008, 7:57 am / logo, webkit, javascript, safari, squirrelfish, performance, bytecode

Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places). In a characteristic stroke of genius, _why makes a solid initial attempt at compiling Ruby 1.9 source to Python 2.5 bytecode.

# 5th May 2008, 10:13 pm / bytecode, ruby, python, whytheluckystiff, googleappengine