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Re:Ink: React for Interactive CLI Apps by coffeemug on Friday November 01, 2024 @01:13PM (#42019212)
Node/V8 is insanely fast. I never quite realized exactly how fast until I worked on this: https://www.spakhm.com/ts-wolfram-bench. It's mindblowing how fast it is.
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Re:Ink: React for Interactive CLI Apps by wyager on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:07PM (#42019798)
I don't find "performance parity with Mathematica" to be very compelling. Mathematica is a CAS system, not something I would use to write fast code.
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Re:Ink: React for Interactive CLI Apps by coffeemug on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:02PM (#42022015)
It's not that V8 has performance parity with Mathematica. The Mathematica interpreter is written in highly optimized C by experts over many years. My barely optimized js/V8 code has performance parity to _that C code_. That's what should blow your mind.
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