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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by ComputerGuru on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:38PM (#22470688)
JS requires a runtime, so by definition there would have to be something (even if it’s just a bastardized gc-free version of JS itself).
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by saagarjha on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @02:56AM (#22472679)
Technically so do the native platform frameworks: they just come with the system.
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