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Typed data for performance boost

After reading John McCutchan’s recent post on numeric computation in Dart, and a conversation with Srdjan Mitrovic from the Dart VM team, I made some changes to the Dart port of Box2D in the hope of improving performance. The specific commits that make up this change are here and here, and this change has been released […]

Posted on 2013/06/05 by dominic in performance, web | Tagged box2d, dart, dart vm, dartbox2d, performance | Leave a comment

Embedding the Dart VM: Part One

The Dart VM can be run as a standalone tool from command-line, and is embedded in a branch of Chromium named Dartium, but all of the public instructions I could find only discuss how to extend the VM with native methods. Definitely useful, but there are some applications when it would be useful to directly embed the […]

Posted on 2012/09/17 by dominic in Uncategorized | Tagged dart, dart vm | 2 Comments

Benchmarking DartBox2d

Joel Webber wrote this excellent blog post in which he tests native versions of Box2D against Javascript implementations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he discovered that native code is around 20 times faster than JavaScript. Having just released DartBox2d, I was curious to see how Dart stacks up against these results. It should be noted that the Dart version […]

Posted on 2012/01/27 by dominic in web | Tagged box2d-web, dart, dart vm, dartbox2d | Leave a comment

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