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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by pjmlp on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:24AM (#17650973)
Go is not rather unique in having GC and stack semantics, there are plenty of languages that have it, all the way back to Mesa/Cedar and CLU.
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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by weberc2 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:17AM (#17652204)
I should have been more clear I guess; I was comparing it to other popular languages. Few have value types and many that do (like C#) regard them as second-class citizens.
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