Surfin' Safari (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
“Hello, Internet!” WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. SunSpider runs per minute Longer bars are better. What Is SquirrelFish? SquirrelFish is a register-based,...
Red Sweater Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Like the rest of the Mac nerd world, I saw the announcement of SquirrelFish as very promising and inspiring news. The WebKit team (possibly Geoff Garen alone) has massively redesigned the JavaScript parser used by WebKit, emphasizing speed performance by switching from a parsed-tree system to a bytecode-interpreted system. The result is a much faster system that apparently offers the promise of even...
Ted Leung on the Air (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
John Gruber followed up on Daniel Jalkut’s suggestion that Apple replace AppleScript with Javascript: I agree with this wholeheartedly. Or maybe even make a clean break and scrap OSA and introduce a new system. I’ve been talking up the benefits of scripting apps on the Mac since the 1990’s. The sad fact of it is that Apple [...]
The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Ok, maybe that’s not the best analogy since SquirrelFish isn’t illegal. With performance figures like this however, competing mobile browsers may wish it was. WebKit, the driving force behind “real web in your pocket” browsers such as the S60 Browser and Apple’s mobile Safari, has just received a new juiced-up JavaScript interpreter that bumps efficiency [...]
Eddy Young (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
WebKit gets a new ace pet. THE WebKit development team announced SquirrelFish yesterday. SquirrelFish is the new interpreter in the JavaScript engine and is 1.6 times faster than the one used previously. It is also part of the latest nightly builds of WebKit and is, therefore, available to everyone. Even though installing and running the development [...]
maxdesign.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Writing an Interface Style Guide Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas The Missing Link Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs Design Rants Why we skip Photoshop Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed! How to Code HTML Email Newsletters IE Tester Optional Tags in HTML 4 ARIA Slider, Part 1 Announcing SquirrelFish Roundpic Facebook Open Source Projects New eGovernment...
MacUser (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Despite being an uber geek and a software engineer, there is one language that has eluded me. AppleScript is something I could never wrap...
acme's Journal (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Well you know I'm a sucker for new virtual machines, but SquirrelFish , WebKit’s new core JavaScript engine sounds very interesting indeed (also see its bytecodes ).
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
We posted about the new WebKit JavaScript engine SquirrelFish, and now we have an official announcement that goes into fantastic detail on the beast: What is SquirrelFish SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in [...]...
Michael Tsai (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
WebKit’s new JavaScript engine: SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in copy propagation. Oh, and it’s fast.
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The WebKit guys are pushing Safari’s technology forward again by using a new interpreter in its Javascript engine. The name of that new interpreter is Squirrelfish . Seriously. As if the name weren’t pretty enough, it has its own logo, featured on this post. Regardless of its aesthetics, the performance it’s bringing is beautiful. It’s 1.6 times as fast as the current interpreter. Considering just...
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
SquirrelFish . WebKit’s JavaScript engine was no slouch, but that hasn’t stopped them from replacing it with a brand new “register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention”. It runs 1.6x faster and has the Best Logo Ever.
Michael Tsai (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Daniel Jalkut: Apple should make JavaScript its default scripting language.… It sounds a like I just said “Apple should kill AppleScript,” but I didn’t. You see, the Open Scripting Architecture, on which AppleScript runs, is designed from the start to support multiple languages. Think of the “Open Scripting” part of the system as the part that [...]
