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		maximilian on Sept 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Goo... And the guys who wrote the Squirrelfish VM for safari weren't all famous VM researchers. From what I read, they just picked all the low hanging fruit in classic VM design and got great performance - better than IE8 for sure. Their code is even open source. MS could just read through the source and copy the design.

pohl on Sept 24, 2009 [–]

Indeed, they wouldn't even have to read the source. They could just read the blog and the papers it references:

http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/

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