Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance

First time accepted submitter digiti writes "In response to Drew Crawford's article about JavaScript performance, Shai Almog wrote a piece providing a different interpretation for the performance costs (summary: it's the DOM not the script). He then gives several examples of where mobile Java performs really well on memory constrained devices. Where do you stand in the debate?"

Re:My guarantee

[i kan reed]

For the 3 seconds before your battery runs out.

Re:I blame the DOM too

[maxwell demon]

(quick! point to the document showing that a select tag has a value attribute!)

Here it is. [slashdot.org]

Re:Throughput, latency, and latency hiding

[aliquis]

Or you sit there like:

"Stupid animation just show me the content."