Google's Native Client project to accelerate Web applications just got a lot more real--and a lot more ambitious. Browsers today come with increasingly powerful engines to run programs written in JavaScript, but those programs must be translated laboriously into the native instructions a computer understands, typically making them much slower than the software that runs directly on the operating system. Native Client is an attempt to bridge those worlds, letting code downloaded over the Web run fast and natively. A year and a half ago, when Google announced Native Client , the open-source project could run only 32-bit software for x86 processors. On Wednesday, Google announced fulfillment of plans to build support for Native Client for 64-bit x86 processors and ARM processors. That was technologically challenging, but significant because those are the chips that are in most of today's PCs and most smartphones, respectively. But that's not all. The company also disclosed a ...
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