A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript

Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by tombert on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:45PM (#20954892)

Wow, I wonder why Firefox is so much slower? Quantum seems pretty zippy overall, but maybe that's largely due to fast rendering speeds?

Does anyone on the Spidermonkey team have some insight?

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by opencl on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:30PM (#20955409)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366287

The open issues this bug depends on is a pretty good list of bigint-related performance enhancements that haven't been implemented yet.

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by war1025 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:00PM (#20955082)

Looks like they are using big integers, which I'd guess isn't something that comes up a lot, so probably hasn't been optimized for too much.

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by ehsankia on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:16PM (#20958540)

It is pretty new, and as you mention not many websites use them yet, so I'm sure there are more important optimizations the Firefox team is focusing on for now.

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by Porygon on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:30PM (#20955415)

What is benchmarked here is basically the performance of the division operation on big integers and does not represent the general performance of a browser for everyday tasks.

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