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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by saagarjha on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:45PM (#23183641)
People used to think JavaScript was too dynamic to optimize, too. Then people poured time and effort into it and now good JavaScript virtual machines can hold their own against competing implementations for other languages.
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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by pdimitar on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:40PM (#23185111)
...While still not being multicore. I feel that those efforts you mention don't go far enough.

And I am pretty sure backwards compatibility will continue dragging JS down for quite a long time still as well.

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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by igouy on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:27AM (#23193272)
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

multicore.

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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by pjmlp on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:19AM (#23189462)
Surely they are, via workers and worklets.
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Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby by goatlover on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:59PM (#23187257)
It's interesting because Lars Bak was optimizing Smalltalk and Self VMs in the 90s.
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