Google I/O 2009 - V8: ..High Performance JavaScript Engine

[GirlieBlues]

The Engine is really performing at high rates.

[venusfighter98]

borin



[Humanoidism]

The first thing I saw was that he used Firefox... Why not Google Chrome? Im just saying, is somthing wrong with that browser?

[TiiBiiDii]

@Humanoidism chrome on mac was still beta/alpha at the time

[azamzzr250]

lol...

this is my longest buffering video ever...

[dakotakota77]

101:00

[sim642]

@dakotakota77 fail!

1 hour and 1 minute is 61 minutes not 101 -.-

[Arondals]

For today's applications, probably not.

For tomorrows applications, hell yeah!!

[mr7clay]

Considering the web is moving toward mobile devices (which desperately need optimized JS engines) and more JS-heavy pages, yes.

[NiteAngel]

Chrome has a problem playing flash i tested back to back with ie it hangs and does not play the video smoothly it has some kind of memory leak, works ok after a restart but not for long

[NiteAngel]

Chrome has a problem playing flash i tested back to back with ie it hangs and does not play the video smoothly, it has some kind of memory leak, works ok after a restart but not for long

[shishkabobby]

Javascript is actually an advanced object-oriented language that has a great deal of power. With libraries like YUI, Dojo or GWT, a developer can build rich applications that run in your browser. The goal is not to have flashier web pages, but to start developing applications in Javascript. For that reason, we can use all the speed we can get.

[Alexkwright]

Besides the fact that there are useful web apps that make good use of a fast JavaScript engine...

There haven't been many huge web apps written that need something like V8 because JavaScript is so slow (in some browsers, IE8).

If you're happy with the current web, then you've no need for faster, more scalable and more capable JavaScript apps.

There are a people that think things could still be improved upon though.

[b0b0b0b]

do we need soooo fast video card? cpu? horseless carriages?