[Vm-dev] [ANN] SqueakJS

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:50:26PM -0300, J. Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
> 
> This is absolutely beautiful!
> 
> Performance figures are rather modest:
> Safari: 3,401,360 bytecode/s 127,111 sends/s
> Firefox: 4,232,804 bytecode/s 152,003 sends/s
> Chrome: 1,860,465 bytecode/s 76,859 send/s
> StackVM: 623,250,152 bytecode/s 13,392,546 sends/s
> 
> But still, MVC is _very_ usable. I could even set display depth to  
> 32bpp, and play with mandalas and such in full color. Wonderful!
> 
> This makes me think... Maybe MVC could still be useful as a low  
> overhead UI for servers that usually run headless, very low power  
> hardware, etc...
> 

I think that the lightweight MVC interface was important for demonstrating
the RoarVM for exactly this reason.

  http://news.squeak.org/tag/roarvm/

Dave