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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by petre on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:01AM (#16526977)
Most of them are slower. Luajit is the only dynamic language runtime that's faster than V8, at least at prime number crunching. I haven't tested elisp but the others (Perl, Ruby etc.) are an order of magnitude slower.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by flavio81 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:20AM (#16528635)
>Luajit is the only dynamic language runtime that's faster than V8,

Also Common Lisp (much faster than V8), Forth, and probably some Scheme implementations.

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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by nine_k on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:24AM (#16529008)
To pick nits: Forth is not "dynamic"; words are called by their direct addresses, without any hashtable lookup. It's a stark contrast with Python, Ruby, JS, etc.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by klibertp on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:29AM (#16529386)
To be fair, with CREATE/DOES> you can make them do any lookup you want easily. Well, as easy as anything in Forth.
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