* the only viable approach? v8 is pretty fast; in my programs, i've seen firefox being faster only once yet (in an optimal case for tracing)
* LuaJIT is a tracing JIT
* what are massive performance improvements? i'd say the jump from pure interpreter to static/tracing JIT compilation has already been a massive performance improvement
no, you can't. you see the just the silhouette of the code, not the while code itself - because when selected, tabs and multiple spaces rougly look the same.
i tried csscaffold, but ran into nothing special yet. despite a minor bug it just worked. the biggest nuisance is that my ide (currently netbeans) reports lots of errors in the scaffolded css file because of course it's not valid css anymore.
while i belief in machine consciousness, i don't think human-like intelligence - as described in popular science fiction culture - is likely (though not impossible). intelligence: yes. superhuman intelligence: yes. but human-like intelligence, as in "thinks like a human, reasons like a human"; no * . the bodies, senses, cultures, etc would be just too different.
so silicon-based intelligence would be very strange and incomprehensible for us, and i doubt we'd recognize it as an intelligent being easily.
chrome definitley wins. but i think, (tracemonkeys) tracing could be THE feature in this case. lots of unrolled loops ... hopefully mozilla gets more out of it over time.
* LuaJIT is a tracing JIT
* what are massive performance improvements? i'd say the jump from pure interpreter to static/tracing JIT compilation has already been a massive performance improvement