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Node builds on top of V8, Chromium’s JS engine, which has JIT, which allows for some optimizations that aren’t as easy or obvious in a simple bytecode interpret
by chalsprhebaodu 3y ago
Node builds on top of V8, Chromium’s JS engine, which has JIT, which allows for some optimizations that aren’t as easy or obvious in a simple bytecode interpreter.
- Someone 3y agoThat’s exactly what I argue: the CPython developers choose not to spend time on a JIT (quite possibly because they didn’t have the resources to build a good one) PyPy shows Python could have had a JIT (https://www.pypy.org/ https://www.pypy.org/)