Compiler as dll

[Daniel Keep]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I disagree. Making all add-ons be interpreted scripts is one of the biggest 
> reasons why Firefox (especially v2) is so absurdly slow (not that I'm a fan 
> of IE, Opera or Safari). Also, the fact that the vast majority of scripting 
> languages lack descent compile-time checking (such as static type checking 
> or mandatory explicit declarations), or at least push it off as a secondary 
> concern (modern ECMAScript), creates a situation where plugins have a 
> tendancy to be unreliable.

There's an interesting talk Steve Yeggie gave a while back:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html

There's also a video of it: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-Bb-D6teE

 -- Daniel