[geeks] javascript tutorial sought?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> der Mouse wrote:
>>> I basically want to turn the web browser into a (very specialized)
>>> "termnial emulator" designed to support card games rather than text
>>> "console" applications.  Perhaps JavaScript is a wrong approach?
>> If I were doing something like that, I'd write a Java applet.  It would 
>> require more horsepower than the Javascript method
> 
> Why would JIT'd Java require more horsepower than interpreted Javascript?

JVM housekeeping overhead and garbage collection overhead, among other 
things.

Peace...  Sridhar