Archive for January, 2010
Elevating JavaScript Performance Through GPU Power
My name is Alex. I am one of developers who helped make it possible to utilize CUDA from within Jetpack. (See the Jetpack-to-CUDA project) Andrey is Ph.D. at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, his interests include parallel computing and distributed algorithm development. The goal of this article is to share our ideas of how [...]
Evolving the Firefox Add-on Platform
Firefox’s extension platform is incredibly powerful and generative, but when I created my first extension in early 2008, I found a number of barriers to entry—difficulties echoed by a number of other newcomers I talked to. For one thing, extensions were difficult to get started with. Perhaps the best indicator of this is Myk Melez’s [...]
