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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by kristianp on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:18PM (#22469111)
There's no mention either way. The article talks about a single C library and C extensions. And it mentions using native OS functionality. Those could be used from javascript or any language.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by soylentgraham on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:47AM (#22472903)
Yeah, which is probably why it's in C, portable AND callable :)
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