It's also one of the big influences on modern JIT compilation techniques, pioneering a lot of the tricks that (through Animorphic Smalltalk) ended up in Hotspot first and V8 later.
Interesting. So V8 isn't really innovating implementationally in terms of major new research ideas - it's just scrounging around and borrowing old, awesome research from decades gone past.
Reminds me of the container-based virtualization renaissance that's happening right now.
Hmm, and I've always thought Chrome's extra-thick titlebar was liberated from the Xerox Star UI (http://imgur.com/6h13MlP).
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It's also one of the big influences on modern JIT compilation techniques, pioneering a lot of the tricks that (through Animorphic Smalltalk) ended up in Hotspot first and V8 later.
Interesting. So V8 isn't really innovating implementationally in terms of major new research ideas - it's just scrounging around and borrowing old, awesome research from decades gone past.
Reminds me of the container-based virtualization renaissance that's happening right now.
Hmm, and I've always thought Chrome's extra-thick titlebar was liberated from the Xerox Star UI (http://imgur.com/6h13MlP).