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Re:Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In C... by gudjon on Friday February 24, 2012 @06:47AM (#3628870)
Rails is missing the V8-like phenomena Node.js has.

Imagine if we would see something like V12 in the future, a JavaScript engine running on nVidia CUDA. That's where I would like to run my Node.js from ;-)

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Re:Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In C... by mistercow on Friday February 24, 2012 @12:16PM (#3629925)
>Imagine if we would see something like V12 in the future, a JavaScript engine running on nVidia CUDA.

For that concept even to make sense, we would have to have massive leaps forward beyond what is currently even believed possible in the realm of auto parallelization.

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