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9th August 2007 - Link Blog

Why Tamarin instead of... Justification for Tamarin in Mozilla over Mono and the JVM. It mainly comes down to license compatibility and overall size.

Posted 9th August 2007 at 12:43 pm

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java 91 john-resig 33 jvm 4 mono 8 mozilla 117 open-source 322 tamarin 6

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