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Re:Redis-V8 by wheaties on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:23AM (#5861536)
You know what's faster than JS? C. C, the language many VMs are built in and tasked with running these kinds of things.
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Re:Redis-V8 by evilduck on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:50AM (#5861706)
And ASM is faster than C.

Javascript strikes a nice balance between performance and high level usability.

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