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Comment by kragen

6 days ago

> How do people think JavaScript works?

Very slowly. Java, OCaml, or LuaJIT would be better examples here!

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quotemstr  6 days ago

How many of the "GC is always slow" people would recognize those systems? Besides: V8 and JSC have pretty decent JITs nowadays. IME, performance of JIT systems has more to do with the structure of programs written in JS than with VM performance itself.

  • kragen  6 days ago

    Maybe I don't know what I'm doing, but I rarely get performance within an order of magnitude of single-threaded C from V8. In those other systems I usually do, unless you count Java's startup time.