[Development] Qt 5.9's new garbage collector documentation? + root_ptr

[Phil Bouchard]

On 07/13/2017 01:20 PM, André Pönitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:54:54PM -0400, Phil Bouchard wrote:
>> On 07/12/2017 10:28 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> On quarta-feira, 12 de julho de 2017 12:34:35 PDT Phil Bouchard wrote:
>>>> I don't know about you but a minimalist version of g++ embedded inside the
>>>> browser could be beneficial big time.
>>>
>>> Such a thing exists, it's called JIT.
>>
>> I was reading the Wiki page:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation
>>
>> And it says:
>> "thus in theory JIT compilation can yield faster execution than static
>> compilation"
>
> Right, and in practice there's a reason why some people pronounce
> it with [ʃ]
>
> There's no sensible reason to postpone "compilation" to run-time
> on a million feeble devices if there's any sensible way to do it
> ahead of time once on a beefy developer machine.

You just helped me figure something out: people want speed, right?

- You offer a service which converts and compiles all Javascript files 
for most popular architectures (i386, x86_64, ARM, MIPS, ...)
- You cache these executables on the webserver in question
- The client just downloads and caches the respective executable and 
executes it in the browser

You can't have anything faster than that.  And once again we would be 
able to mix Javascript with C++ so you could import real OpenGL code in 
the executable and play let's say: "Unreal Tournament" in your own browser.

Because let's face it: WebGL is not going anywhere.  It had the slowest 
progress I have ever seen!


My 2 cents,
-Phil