Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Something Glen said

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Steven H. Rogers wrote:
> JavaScript is quite powerful, though generally under appreciated.  A 
> model executing in the browser calling Swarm methods with XPCOM seems 
> rather tightly coupled and would work best if the browser and Swarm 
> were running on the same machine, or perhaps machines connected by a 
> fast, local network. Is this the anticipated use case?
Yes, Swarm gets dynamically linked into Firefox via a plugin.   The cost 
of a call to or from Swarm is the cost of the indirection through a pure 
virtual table in C++ (a COM interface), e.g. less than message dispatch 
in a pure Objective C model.  Whenever Firefox calls on native code from 
JavaScript for its own purposes it uses this same XPCOM infrastructure.  
There are also XPCOM layers for C++ and Perl, Python, and Ruby.