Re:Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
by BrendanEich on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @01:27AM
(#2990083)
Evaluating function declarations and expressions, even in a module pattern closure, takes well under a millisecond in modern browsers.
The "dynamic-hashes" remark shows serious ignorance of polymorphic inline caches and shapes aka hidden classes. Competitive JS JITs do not probe hashtables for dot member accesses.
The "dynamic-hashes" remark shows serious ignorance of polymorphic inline caches and shapes aka hidden classes. Competitive JS JITs do not probe hashtables for dot member accesses.