Comment by phantomathkg
10 days ago
Speaking about benchmark.
Node vs Lua shows Node faster than Lua. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Node vs C, only 4 to 5 times slower. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Looking at its root, it is not too bad as a JIT compiled language.
Now, instead-of hand-written vector instructions, look at programs transliterated line-by-line literal style into different programming languages from the same original:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
“Only” 5 times slower? Imagine if every website that takes 10 seconds to load instead took 2 seconds…
You know that CPU-bound performance would take a really small fragment of those straw man 10 seconds loading a page, right?
If you think 10 seconds is a strawman, clearly you haven’t used sites like GitHub on a cheap device.
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> “Only” 5 times slower? Imagine if every website that takes 10 seconds to load instead took 2 seconds…
All you need to know about the level of knowledge of average JS hater/muh native performance.