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Re:Why interpreters matter (at least for high level programm... by cygx on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:45AM (#3966844)
I'd be surprised if that's still true today. V8 used to be consistently slower than LuaJIT, but has caught up since then.
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Re:Why interpreters matter (at least for high level programm... by justincormack on Sunday May 13, 2012 @05:00PM (#3968303)
Would be interested in an update, but was actually referring to Javascript interpreters, which were very slow.
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Re:Why interpreters matter (at least for high level programm... by dmpk2k on Sunday May 13, 2012 @06:51PM (#3968638)
What makes you think it has caught up?
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