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Re:Haiku Project by nickpsecurity on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:16AM (#12569438)
The gist of the comment was whether GCC automatically made something like WebKit + JIT + Native Client work on very, different OS by a simple compile. I doubted that was true or that the work was easy.
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Re:Haiku Project by ori_b on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:49AM (#12569502)
You only need to implement the window system and widget rendering glue. The layout, javascript, CSS, DOM, history, etc is all platform independent.

But implementing `drawButton()`, `blitToScreen()` and similar is in no way similar to implementing a C++ compiler, as you implied.

An example of a port is here, in this directory: https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platfor...

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Re:Haiku Project by nickpsecurity on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:13AM (#12569842)
Sounds a lot better than I thought. Appreciate the explanation. :)
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Re:Haiku Project by kobeya on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:54AM (#12570143)
I ran firefox on BeOS.
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Re:Haiku Project by nickpsecurity on Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:24AM (#12571270)
Im curious how it ran. Was there a performance boost from BeOS architecture?
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Re:Haiku Project by kobeya on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:08PM (#12572415)
Not noticeably. It just rendered better than the built in browser..
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