> I guess that v8 is leading a revamp in the languages.
1. v8 is an implementation, not a language, so it hardly makes sense to say v8 is leading a revamp in the languages.
2. most of v8's behaviors were pioneered by Self and put to task in JVMs (HotSpot and — even earlier — Jikes RVM) and Strongtalk (v8's assembler comes in significant parts from strongtalk, I believe), so it hardly makes sense to say that v8 is leading unless you restrict this to the pretty small world of javascript in-browser runtimes.
3. finally, other browsers were already walking down the route of JITs when Chrome arrived (Tracemonkey landed in Firefox trunk in October 2008)
V8 is definitely a strong work of software engineering put to good use, but the amount of inane praises are grating: it's not magic and it's mostly the application of preexisting practical research and development (meaning stuff which was already used, not just research papers).
1. v8 is an implementation, not a language, so it hardly makes sense to say v8 is leading a revamp in the languages.
2. most of v8's behaviors were pioneered by Self and put to task in JVMs (HotSpot and — even earlier — Jikes RVM) and Strongtalk (v8's assembler comes in significant parts from strongtalk, I believe), so it hardly makes sense to say that v8 is leading unless you restrict this to the pretty small world of javascript in-browser runtimes.
3. finally, other browsers were already walking down the route of JITs when Chrome arrived (Tracemonkey landed in Firefox trunk in October 2008)
V8 is definitely a strong work of software engineering put to good use, but the amount of inane praises are grating: it's not magic and it's mostly the application of preexisting practical research and development (meaning stuff which was already used, not just research papers).