[whatwg] Proposal for separating script downloads and execution

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:
> - The "scripts in comments" hack would be unneeded.  That's an unpleasant
> hack, because it will both prevent browsers from caching compiled scripts,
> and prevent scripts from being compiled in the background.  Specifying a
> bogus file type also has these problems.

i don't think a script in comments prevents caching.

in the end at some point someone sends a string to a js engine for execution

the js engine is free to generate bytecode or native code, it's also
free to recognize that it has already parsed that given string and has
a copy of the corresponding bytecode/native code.

as for compiling in the background, again, nothing prevents this, if
you have idle cycles you're free to speculatively parse whatever you
like. it might not be a great idea, but it isn't forbidden. as a
quality of impl issue, an agent is free to recognize when a given site
pulls things out of comments and note to itself (or its peers) in the
future to speculatively parse comments for that site.