a hotspot-powered Javascript engine

Charles Oliver Nutter charles.nutter at sun.com
Wed Dec 10 15:05:20 PST 2008


John Pampuch wrote:
>> My question: Is there any existing project(s) already doing this? I 
>> would hate to reinvent the wheel.   If not, can any experts on the 
>> list give any potential roadblocks/advice to help along the effort?
> You definitely want to look at Rhino from the Mozilla organization.  It 
> could be a good start.

Rhino needs work, but it would be far easier to get it running fast than 
most of the other dynamic languages. I've wanted to try to tackle it 
myself. Keep us posted on how it goes if you try it yourself.

- Charlie



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