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Why don't they use Tamarin?Why don't they use Tamarin?Posted Apr 19, 2012 22:53 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)In reply to: Why don't they use Tamarin? by HelloWorld Parent article: Updates on Flash support for Linux
> I wonder why people nevertheless choose to write their own ActionScript VMs...
For a long time, Mozilla even planned to use Tamarin as the Firefox JavaScript engine. Many months (a year?) later, after investing considerable developer effort, they dropped it.
Mozilla wouldn't make such decisions on a whim. It probably just isn't as good as it sounds.
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Why don't they use Tamarin? Posted Apr 19, 2012 23:01 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
Well, duh. I'd be interested in something more specific, really.
Why don't they use Tamarin? Posted Apr 19, 2012 23:36 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
Sorry, I thought you were implying that these projects are doing it because of NIH syndrome.
Why don't they use Tamarin? Posted Apr 20, 2012 5:16 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
I didn't mean to, perhaps I should have been explicit about that.
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