Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
by flukus on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:18PM
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> but for 90% of use cases javascript actually makes sense and can be the most performant.
This is a weird definition of performant, using more resources to achieve the same result faster, it seems akin to saying JS is more performant than C if you buy a newer CPU to run the code on.
> But the more I've learnt about the benefits of "on the fly" / "just in time" optimising compilers, the more I'm convinced this is the future of computing
It's been the future of computing for 30 years, possibly longer.
This is a weird definition of performant, using more resources to achieve the same result faster, it seems akin to saying JS is more performant than C if you buy a newer CPU to run the code on.
> But the more I've learnt about the benefits of "on the fly" / "just in time" optimising compilers, the more I'm convinced this is the future of computing
It's been the future of computing for 30 years, possibly longer.