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I'm not so sure...

I'm not so sure...

Posted Jul 29, 2011 12:52 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Google's Native Client forges ahead by appie
Parent article: Google's Native Client forges ahead

This is not really true, if you'll think about it: the most frugal OS of them all (Symbian) is dying.

But in general... I think NaCl is comparable to frugal JIT (like Dalvik's one) and way more power-effective then other Web technologies. The reason is simple: JavaScript (and ActionScript) are highly dynamic language and it's hard to avoid doing lots of additional work. But all that potential can be easily wasted if the app is written by sub-par programmer.


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