News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: What is with all these 'X in 30/35 lines of Javascript' posts?.

Re:Ask HN: What is with all these 'X in 30/35 lines of Javas... by VLM on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:52AM (#6760786)
Well, lets rephrase it, is there anything interesting an outside doesn't know about javascript interpreters and lines of code?

I could imagine the existence of a JIT compiler engine that caches everything smaller than 64 lines, or maybe less than 1K compiled. Imagining doesn't make it so, but it would explain a heck of a lot.

Is there anything other than competitiveness like obfuscated C contests?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: What is with all these 'X in 30/35 lines of Javas... by rimo on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @08:02AM (#6760840)
I was asking myself the same thing, anybody knows about obfuscated JavaScript contests?
[ Parent | on HN ]