Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
by saagarjha on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:11PM
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The key being that the code you're writing needs to be performant. If you write O(n!) code, it's going to be slow whether it's C or JavaScript.
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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
by stochastic_monk on Monday July 30, 2018 @07:29PM
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Algorithms take you far. Optimized code takes you the rest of the way. If you’re after performance you’ll do both, of course. I’ve found that the only subfield of which I know in which mathematicians still write their own C or C++ is concise/efficient data structures and algorithms.