My interpretation of the title was that it was going to discuss how the Dis VM[1] compared to popular JS VMs, but I was sorely disappointed.
(Inferno, for those not aware of it, is a rather obscure successor to the almost-as-obsure Plan 9 From Bell Labs. Plan 9, in turn, was supposed to be the replacement for UNIX. Unfortunately it failed because UNIX was "an existing codebase that is just good enough"[2]; its main lasting contribution was the invention of UTF-8[3].)
I'm sorry, this topic has nothing to do with the operating system. Inferno in this context is a popular JavaScript library for building UIs, not an operating system.
Yes, I figured that out as soon as I started reading the article. :) I just figured I'd give some context to thread readers who'd never heard of the OS and were wondering what we were going on about.
(Inferno, for those not aware of it, is a rather obscure successor to the almost-as-obsure Plan 9 From Bell Labs. Plan 9, in turn, was supposed to be the replacement for UNIX. Unfortunately it failed because UNIX was "an existing codebase that is just good enough"[2]; its main lasting contribution was the invention of UTF-8[3].)
[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/dis.html
[2] Plan 9: The Way the Future Was http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/plan9.html
[3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt