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Re:Chrome Won by camgunz on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:39AM (#14424810)
Modern JS is pretty fast yeah, but I still don't think it rivals Objective-C does it? If we stipulate it's 1/2 as fast as Swift, it's still much faster than v8 on the benchmarks game [1]. Can you be trickier with JS code than those toy programs are?

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

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Re:Chrome Won by pcwalton on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:54PM (#14425458)
Objective-C and Swift are completely different beasts, especially on those kinds of workloads. Idiomatic Objective-C would be much worse than that.
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Re:Chrome Won by camgunz on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:00PM (#14427137)
Well now that I think about it, maybe in the context of your original argument a comparison against Swift makes sense. It's hard for me to see JS ever being competitive with Swift or a similar compiled language.
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