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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dan wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>One thing is clear: JavaScript *is* the assembly language of
the</DIV>
<DIV>> Internet, at least for a few years now.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For people working at assembly(low) level a very
good debugger</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> is the most important tool.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any reference to a good debugger for
Javascript </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>will be appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are the reflexive capabilities of the V8 platform
enough to build</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> a smalltalk-like debugger? (e.g. reflexion
and change of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> running stack w/change of object shape &
behavior during debuggin)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ale.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=Dan@SqueakLand.org href="mailto:Dan@SqueakLand.org">Dan Ingalls</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:56
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [squeak-dev] Using V8 for
other languages</DIV>
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<DIV>David Griswold <<A
href="mailto:david.griswold.256@gmail.com">david.griswold.256@gmail.com</A>>
wrote...<BR></DIV>
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<LI>Given who the developers are, and with Google behind it, it will be
the fastest JavaScript VM for a long time to come.</LI></UL></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>There's no doubt that V8 puts us on a new plateau, and the V8 team is
good, and that the further attention being put on multiprocessing and security
are critical. However VMs are not black magic, and you might be
interested to read some comparisons with TraceMonkey...</DIV>
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</X-TAB>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_<SPAN></SPAN>update.html</DIV>
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<DIV>One thing is clear: JavaScript *is* the assembly language of the
Internet, at least for a few years now.</DIV>
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<DIV><X-TAB> </X-TAB>- Dan</DIV>
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