Followed by an hour of rolling around on the floor laughing!

Google wanting to kill JavaScript, Opera with this. Google has at least a whisper of a chance with Dart. Does Opera have a stick big enough to leverage their measly 2% share to make this happen on a wide scale? And, do web designers want the browser messing up their layout? Does anyone actually consider Opera important enough to accommodate its quirks? I think not.

I foresee a transfer in someones future...

"A ParallelArray abstraction for JavaScript and a Firefox add-on to enable parallel programming in JavaScript targeting multi-core CPUs and vector SSE/AVX instructions." Sounds to me as though this is not Multithreaded JavaScript or a replacement for Web Workers, but an implementation of vector processing for JavaScript, using OpenCL