On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Caspy7 <cas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a developer and so apologize if my understanding is oversimplified > or naive. > I had been under the impression that C++ (previously) was not being used > at all, apart from Gecko itself, for security and stability reasons. > Perhaps I am mistaken or simply misunderstand the structures discussed > here. > > Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that in the future, once asm.js has come > to greater maturity (and of course GGC & Lazy bytecode gen), perhaps these > workers could be compiled to asm. This would keep the security of JS while > having high performance and not require a rewrite. > Again, apologies if my underlying assumptions or understandings are errant. >
The entire discussion is about which technology to use for implementing platform, i.e. Gecko, features. Gecko consists of many modules, some of which are written in C++, some in JS. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
