http://simonwillison.net/2008-06-03T07:57:11+00:00Simon Willison2008-06-03T07:57:11+00:002008-06-03T07:57:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/3/squirrelfish/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/">SquirrelFish</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bytecode">bytecode</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/logo">logo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/safari">safari</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/squirrelfish">squirrelfish</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webkit">webkit</a></p>

2008-05-05T22:13:09+00:002008-05-05T22:13:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/5/hackety/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html">Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)</a></strong></p> In a characteristic stroke of genius, _why makes a solid initial attempt at compiling Ruby 1.9 source to Python 2.5 bytecode. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bytecode">bytecode</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine">google-app-engine</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whytheluckystiff">whytheluckystiff</a></p>