[Fwd] Developer Chat with the Creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich

[Scott Elcomb]

The presentation on AJAX was pretty much sold out at the FSOSS 2006
symposium last week.  This might be of interest to folks building web
applications.

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Date: Nov 2, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: Developer Chat with the Creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO
Brendan Eich
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Chat with the Creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich

This Tuesday, November 7th at 10am PST (UTC-8) Brendan Eich and some
very special guests will be hosting a developer chat about exciting new
technologies coming to Mozilla 2. If you didn't read Brendan's Mozilla 2
roadmap post, here's an excerpt[1] to whet your whistle for Tuesday's talk.

 >For Mozilla 2, we will have a JIT-oriented JavaScript VM (details
soon) >that supports the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 ("JS2")
language[2]. >Among the desirable characteristics of this VM will be a
conservative, >incremental garbage collector (GC). If it makes sense, we
can use this >GC module to manage DOM object memory instead of using
XPCOM reference >counting. We can use its conservative scanning code to
assist in cycle >collection[3]. And we can insert JIT calls directly
into DOM glue >code[4] entry points (provided no JS mutation has
overridden a method >property value), bypassing the powerful but
relatively slow >typelib[5]-based dispatching machinery of XPConnect[6].

If that sounds exciting to you, then you won't want to miss this
opportunity to discuss it with Brendan. Join us Tuesday at 10am PST
(UTC-8) on the IRC server irc.mozilla.org in the channel #javascript for
this exciting event.



[1]http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/10/mozilla_2.html
[2]http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/05/javascript_2_ecmascript_editio.html
[3]http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/04/fresh_xpcom_thinking_update.html
[4]http://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Security_Checks_In_Glue
[5]http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/typelib_file.html
[6]http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable
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