Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:17PM
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Yes, that was for the specific case of Node. For web use, full compilation is a clear loss.
Java can make great use of JIT exactly because it's interpreted. When you make partial compilations, you lose a lot of JIT opportunities, and a lot of static optimization opportunities too. Yet, it looks like V8 attenuated this somehow, and got good performance anyway. Must have been a feat.
Java can make great use of JIT exactly because it's interpreted. When you make partial compilations, you lose a lot of JIT opportunities, and a lot of static optimization opportunities too. Yet, it looks like V8 attenuated this somehow, and got good performance anyway. Must have been a feat.