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by eli_gottlieb 5203 days ago
>This makes absolutely no sense. This is borderline an insult to system developers -- because system software is what the device is running directly.

It's ok. We're used to it. From the desktop to the laptop to the netbook to the phone, Mozilla and Google have been trying to exterminate us for years.
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wickedchicken 5203 days ago
> Mozilla and Google have been trying to exterminate us for years.

I highly recommend you take a look at PNaCl: portable LLVM binaries run in the NaCl sandbox. Since LLVM bitcode can be JITed (or even offline compiled before execution), you would be looking at optimized code for whichever target you're running on. Very exciting stuff.

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...

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eli_gottlieb 5202 days ago
Which requires that people use Chrome, running a web-browser to run native code that gets JITed from bitcode... at that point, why not just pull the blocks from the Jenga tower and run native code on your processor through an executable file loaded by an operating system?
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wickedchicken 5202 days ago
Because installing software sucks, this is auto-updated by default and will always be optimized for your processor.
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