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23 October, 2011

Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative

http://sketchupmaterialslibrary.com/news/Google_debuts_Dart_a_JavaScript_alternative.html?utm_source=sketchup&utm_campaign=3165a63b34-skp-11-oct11&utm_medium=email

Snapshotting involves taking an application and "serializing" it into a single block of data.
In one test of snapshotting, a 55,000-line Dart program loaded in 60 milliseconds compared to 640 milliseconds without it, Bak said. A conventional JavaScript program would load in comparable time as Dart without snapshotting, he said. "I can see a lot of optimizations that'll be applicable to Dart" when it's integrated directly into a browser, he added.