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Re:New $250 Chromebook by sp332 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:50PM (#4670722)
So you can run them they'll just be slow? And could Chrome Frame be modified to run Chrome apps in IE at full speed?

Edit: just to be clear, without VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect(), you can't really run any JIT. No LuaJIT, no PyPy, no Java. No Scala, Clojure, or jRuby either.

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Re:New $250 Chromebook by rbanffy on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:57PM (#4670752)
It may be possible, Google may opt to release Chrome on it (or someone may port Chromium) but the lack of an optimizing runtime will probably make it suck when compared to IE.
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Re:New $250 Chromebook by drivebyacct2 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:25PM (#4670877)
Yeah, V8 doesn't do that. Meaning the effort to support Windows 8 RT will/would be large and possibly with little reward.
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