[geeks] javascript tutorial sought?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:07:50PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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.

Uhm, Javascript has housekeeping, including garbage collection, as well.