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by luckystarr 3653 days ago
In the "I need to do this quickly to finish my sprint" world.
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konschubert 3653 days ago
Wasn't V8 written in a cottage in Denmark? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03775904-177c-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2... I cannot imagine that they would take unreasonable shortcuts.
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luckystarr 3653 days ago
Well, unreasonable now was probably perfectly reasonable at the time of implementation. Perhaps they even have or had a plan to improve upon it, but given other tasks (ES6, etc.) it hasn't been given much priority.

I mean, why would they fix it with high priority if the engine already has reasonable performance and the benchmarks are happy as well?

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egeozcan 3653 days ago
Even then, why include comments? Is it to support stuff like multi-line strings as comments hack[1]?

[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/multiline

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