Ray Cromwell

[email protected] - chadaporn

I loved that movie as a kid (Clash, I mean). - Joel Webber

As you can probably now see, I couldn't help wading in. Of course, I have no idea if anyone reads reddit comments a day later... - Joel Webber

http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotb... - Ray Cromwell

Ick, nambu iPhone client doesn't insert spaces sometimes when it wraps it appears - Ray Cromwell

However, there is talk of having a <video> viewfinder, which would allow JS processing at least. - Nick Lothian

Looks like it's got most of the Chrome API mapped, plus generators for manifests, and linkers to produce the CRX. SpeedTracer's starting point appears to it BackgroundPage. Yummy. - Ray Cromwell

So very, very cool. I think I might port our stuff over to it and get rid of the manually-coded background pages. - Matt M (inactive)

My take on the significance of the 2.0 release, with some detailed coverage of features that went under the radar. - Ray Cromwell

Mm goodness. Starting my first real GWT project in the new year & looking forward to all this. - Nick Lothian

Now with overloading support, GWT 2.0 code splitting, $entry wrapping, and preliminary code for structural typing. - Ray Cromwell

I think if someone started doing this in front of you, you'd back off, regardless of whether you though it was ineffective. :) - Ray Cromwell

Both together, yes. - DeWitt Clinton

That is, guerrilla war already is "lying low", if announcing a time table causes them to stop attacking for 2 years until we leave, that would seem brilliant. Two years of lower violence to stabilize government from simply announcing when we leave. If the Taliban simply stand by for 2-3 years while the government is built up on the theory they'll strike back once we leave, it seems they're taking a big risk letting their opponent have a 2-3 year ride with no counter attacks. Thus the McCain/Cheney "announcing timetable will embolden them or they'll just lie low until we leave" criticism seems weirdly contradictory. - Ray Cromwell

Great point, Ray. Never thought of that before. - Bruce Johnson

I just heard Robert Gates make the same point in Congress, in response to McCain making that same tired assertion. He said something like "Wouldn't it would be *great* if the Taleban would like low for a year or two and stop blowing people up?". - Joel Webber

Ha, maybe I should offer my services to the Obama administration. :) - Ray Cromwell

Damn you. Now I have that awful theme song stuck in my head... - Joel Webber

Note, I tried it with web workers and other optimizations (window.btoa for base64 encoding), still too slow. It needs a lot of optimization work, and surprisingly, Chrome is slower than Safari 4. - Ray Cromwell

Things seemed better when the HTML5 spec was a giant dumping ground for in-progress stuff. After they decided to move lots of stuff to separate specs, those seem updated less. - Ray Cromwell

That seems like kind of an odd oversight. Although it's a pretty inefficient format. Perhaps it would be useful for playing waveforms generated via data: urls on the client. Hey, wouldn't it be better to just allow js to pass byte buffers into it? - Joel Webber

Yes, I'd prefer that video/audio supported the same as Canvas, that is, the ability to get data out, modify it, and pass data back, but currently, PCM data uris are the only way. - Ray Cromwell

http://code.google.com/p... my friend. crbug.com if you are into the whole brevity thing. - James Robinson

Yeah, me too. While I applaud everyone's interest in making browsers "automagically faster", it's still a seriously ugly problem to figure out *which* patterns are accelerated, and which aren't. The best I've been able to do is to dig through the WebKit source to figure out which elements end up with their own layers in the compositor, but it's black magic at best. We need more direct control and less "magic". - Joel Webber

I started porting the 7zip C++ code a few months back, but it was pretty slow going. It's some of the worst code I've had to parse. Had to give up eventually- it was easier just to exec() the native ones. - Matt M (inactive)

Have you seen http://code.google.com/p... ? Is LZF the same thing? It's EPL licence, which might be ok? - Nick Lothian

Why you don't use Fusion? We use a lot it also with multiple machine opened at the same time on our MacBook Pro. Sometime we just stop the OS without suspending the VM and after that everything is still working fine...Fusion is really a great product. - Alan Lugiai

Yes, they both use the VT-x stuff, but I think the crashes might come in some of the virtual device driver stuff, e.g. mapping gfx calls to OSX. This was definitely the case with 3d support. - Ray Cromwell