Re: [BLACKBOX] Dr. Michael Franz

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:11:22 -0500

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        He is indeed the creater of slim binaries and Juice, as the second reference indicates. I don't know why Juice is dead, or whether it might be preferable to JavaScript. He had a small grant from Mozilla for this, and I think a larger one from NSF.

Rex Couture


At 05:36 PM 8/22/2008, Doug Danforth wrote:
>There is a very interesting article
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>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-firefox-to-get-massive-javascript-performance-boost.html
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>discussing Mozilla Firefox and a new upgrade to the JavaScript engine. It seems that the improvements are based on work by Dr. Michael Franz and Dr. Andreas Gal, research scientists at the University of California, Irvine. I believe Michael Franz was the greater of Slim Binaries
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>http://wiki.tcl.tk/4400
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>I find this most interesting.
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>-Doug Danforth
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