Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter...
by leeoniya on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:44PM
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there are a lot of assumptions in your reply.
> 3 months of work
according to whom? this will almost certainly need more than a single engineer's eyes on it. and even if it is 3 months, that's 3 months they don't spend working on features for 98% of their userbase.
i want this to happen as much as anyone, but i just don't see the compelling math here. it's a chicken-egg problem (if FF could use VA API [1], then more might switch to linux).
personally, i'm happy that Panfrost recently got mainlined.
> 3 months of work
according to whom? this will almost certainly need more than a single engineer's eyes on it. and even if it is 3 months, that's 3 months they don't spend working on features for 98% of their userbase.
i want this to happen as much as anyone, but i just don't see the compelling math here. it's a chicken-egg problem (if FF could use VA API [1], then more might switch to linux).
personally, i'm happy that Panfrost recently got mainlined.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API