september 2008
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Remote/telecommuting Gig Filtering posted by Andrew
Read more...We have finally gotten around to adding simple filtering of remote/telecommuting gigs to the site. A significant number of people expressed the desire for the feature and we couldn't let them down, so thought we'd better get going and add it. The changes also extend to the feed generator, so you can now get a purely remote gig feed as well as what we had before.
As the site has increased in popularity tremendously over the last ...
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SquirrelFish Extreme posted by Andrew
Read more...First there was SquirrelFish, now there is SquirrelFish Extreme. The exact nature of what SquirrelFish Extreme is isn't quite clear at the moment given that it hasn't yet been announced by the WebKit team. However, some initial benchmarks against TraceMonkey are beginning to appear.
Rummaging around in the source, there is clearly indication of more advanced code generation. It was only merged to trunk in r36244 and is apparently enabled in the latest nightlies - not sure about Windows ...
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V8 and JavaScriptCore Compared posted by Andrew
Read more...Following on from the release of Google's new Chrome browser and their corresponding V8 Javascript engine, I thought I'd see how WebKit's JavascriptCore compares to V8 using Google's benchmark suite.
Since I'm running on a Mac, I can't use the browser to run the test suite, so I built the V8 engine and it's shell, and compared it to the latest WebKit build available (at the time of writing r36013), and used the ...
