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Javascript speed

Posted Sep 2, 2008 14:34 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Javascript speed by epa
Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book

> Should people start using Javascript for general scripting tasks and applications outside the browser, if it's really so fast?

I'd like that, although I don't think it will ultimately be any faster than any other language with similar features. But a lot of people already know it, since it's the only practical choice for client-side web programming, and it would be nice to be able to write server-side scripts in the same language.

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Javascript speed

Posted Sep 2, 2008 15:25 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

There are standalone javascript interpreters that you can run on your server. KDE has kjscmd, and Mozilla has Spidermonkey and (if you want to run JS on the JVM) Rhino.