[Conkeror] flailing about on upgrade

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net> writes:

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> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy at jeremyms.com> writes:
>> Possibly pyxpcom could allow Conkeror to be rewritten mostly from
>> scratch in python, but that would be a lot of work and probably
>> provide little gain.  Possibly the only advantage it would provide
>> is speed --- JavaScript is actually quite a powerful language, but
>> it is quite slow.  I think a lot of the noticeable slowness, though,
>> is due to rendering rather than JavaScript.

> Python?  Fast? ;)

Well, I imagine it might be several times faster than JavaScript at
least.  I don't use python myself, so I'm just guessing.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard