On 5 April 2011 21:29, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To the contrary, I'd expect JavaScript in the most
recent version of
any browser (even IE) to be *much* faster than PHP, maybe ten times
faster on real-world tasks. All browsers now use JIT compilation for
JavaScript, and have been competing intensively on raw JavaScript
speed for the last three years or so. There are no drop-in
alternative PHP implementations, so PHP is happy sticking with a
ridiculously slow interpreter forever.
So if we machine-translate the parser into JS, we can get the user to
do the work and everyone wins! [*]
(Magnus, did you do something like this for WYSIFTW?)
- d.
[*] if they're using a recent browser on a recent computer, etc etc, ymmv.