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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by rootlocus on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:44PM (#15093361)
> I call BS. v8 is one of the fastest dynamic runtimes, at 2x of C or so for lots of tasks, and it totally obliterates Python, PHP, Ruby, and co in speed.

Any proof for this?

EDIT:

According to "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game"

JavaScript fares pretty well against Python [1] or Ruby [2] but not really that great against C [3] or Java [4] in the CPU intensive benchmarks.

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

2 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

3 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

4 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by coldtea on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:25PM (#15094194)
>JavaScript fares pretty well against Python [1] or Ruby [2] but not really that great against C [3] or Java [4] in the CPU intensive benchmarks.

Considering is a non-static, totally dynamic language, with all kinds of dynamicity in it, it does totally fine. 10x to 30x faster than Python, Ruby etc, and 3x to 5x slower than C/Java is totally fast.

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