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> JavaScript is the fastest interpreted language and plans are out to make it even speedier. Citation needed
by simfoo 13y ago
> JavaScript is the fastest interpreted language and plans are out to make it even speedier.
Citation needed
- gluxon 13y agoWith JIT compilation, asm.js, tracing, it is hard to argue against. A long fought browser war really brought out the maximum capabilities of the JavaScript engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine#Performance_evolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine#Performance_e... asm.js promises speed 2x slower than native code. For interpreted code, that is amazing.
- gcr 13y agoNone of those are interpreters. You're trying to compare Javascript against other JITted / compiled languages. Mozilla themselves claim that asm.js is only about 2x slower than C.
- ndesaulniers 13y agoHow about JavaScript is the fastest dynamically typed language?
- messel 13y agois it outperforming lua jit in all or many benchmarks? It's been a while since I rolled up my sleeves and ran various algorithms in js vs lua vs py (pypy was speedy as well last I checked). asm.js isn't dynamically typed afaik, so I think of a fair comparison as v8 vs luajit