IDE support?

[Bill Frantz]

I am always amused by the continuing demands for more 
performance. The only real advantage of performance as a major 
metric is that it is relatively easy to measure.

If performance is your number one goal, then the only languages 
you should consider are assembler and machine language. :-)

On the other hand, if you like safety, security, 
maintainability, understandability etc., then recognize that 
these features have associated costs.

On 9/13/11 at 7:48, brendan at mozilla.com (Brendan Eich) wrote:

>On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:33 AM, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
>
>>* A big problem is predictability, it is a black art to get the best
>>performance out of contemporary JS VMs.
>
>This is the big one in my book. Optimization faults happen. But can we iterate till flat?

A set of rules a developer interested in performance can use 
would be helpful. Particularly if they applied to more than one 
implementation. :-)


>>* The massive complexity that comes with implementing all this affects
>>stability.
>
>This one I'm less sympathetic to, since we won't get rid of 
>untyped JS up front. A sunk cost fallacy? If we could make a 
>"clean break" (ahem), sure. Otherwise this cost must be paid.

We could get better stability with simpler, less performant VMs. 
Some users might prefer the increased stability and security 
such a VM would offer.

Cheers - Bill

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