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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by igouy on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:27PM (#21948077)
fwiw n-body 2009

10x JavaScript V8 211.76 secs

100x Ruby 1.9 #2 34 min

106x JavaScript TraceMonkey 36 min

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by jashmatthews on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:53PM (#21950770)
Real world performance was the opposite story, with Safari's super efficient bytecode VM out performing V8s JIT: http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/19/squirrelfish-extre...