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Re:Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS by zbentley on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:05PM (#16415306)
Writing an O(N^2) algorithm that processes lots of data in wasm is not going to speed it up more than writing an O(log N) algorithm in pure JS; the knowledge of how to identify problems like that will serve you better in many more cases than the selection of a "fast" runtime.
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Re:Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS by vvanders on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:32PM (#16417654)
Not totally true, some algos while large O(n) are incredible cache friendly.

Radix sort for instance comes to mind.

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