Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations
Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.
Apple open sources Pkl, a configuration-as-code language with rich validation and tooling, with Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin integration
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. Threads: @danielpunkass . Mastodon: @lkanies@hachyderm.io . X...
Google Acquires Web Application Server Talaria To Enhance Its Cloud Platform
Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become pa...
Fasten Your Seatbelts - Firefox 4 Beta adds new JavaScript power and faster graphics
A new release of Firefox 4 Beta is now ready for you to download and test! This release boosts performance in some important ways: it adds the JägerMonkey just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler …
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment a...
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment a...
Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5
Issue — A bug discovered last week in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler was disclosed publicly yesterday. It is a critical vulnerability that can be used to execute malicious cod...
Google searches for holy grail of Python performance
Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project's goals is to replace the Pyt...