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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by jashmatthews on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:35AM (#21953294)
Safari perf had already improved more than 4x with the move from AST Interpretation to a register based bytecode VM with SquirrelFish. This happened before Chrome.

I’m working on a tracing JIT for Ruby at the moment partially inspired by LuaJIT. Fingers crossed it’ll be published research this year!

Right, but the Sunspider benchmark also tested strings, regex and date manipulation. V8s original benchmarks didn’t. Performance on stuff like a parser generator was way up, but it didn’t run jQuery based Ajax sites any faster.

Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) by kragen on Saturday January 04, 2020 @03:17AM (#21953645)
Best of luck with that! I look forward to seeing it.