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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by chmod775 on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:08AM (#25187465)
You think node.js specifically has anything to do with that being slow?
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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by falcolas on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:16AM (#25187571)
It's a remarkably low spec device, and anything that's not fairly well optimized is going to behave poorly (games show this constantly). Node.js (V8) was optimized for use on servers and general purpose computers with multiple gigs of RAM and absurd levels of processing power.

So, yes, I think that using Javascript on a low spec device is probably a source of slowness.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by chuckhendo on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:00AM (#25188114)
It likely is being used server side. I seriously doubt Node is being used on device
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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by falcolas on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:18AM (#25188329)
I hope so as well. Still honked off about the performance of the store though.
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