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by ksec
1702 days ago
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>I mean JS used to be slowish and until V8 came There was JS Engine performance war before Chrome v8 came around. From JavaScriptCore to whole bunch of monkeys [1] from Mozilla. Google v8 just makes the competition super heated and every one of them were working around the clock trying to out compete each other on the latest benchmarks. ( That was the dark era when Browser only cares about JS benchmarks scores and nothing in real world ) It would not be an exaggeration to say all the man hours on JS JIT is more than Perl, Ruby and PHP's VM combined. That is why I often said Ruby is the only Top 10 language that gets little to no funding and backing of FAANG. So both YJIT and Sorbet are much needed contribution from Stipe and Shopify. Along with help from Github and Gitlab ( hopefully :) ). The VMs that gets more resources than JS would be JVM and .Net. And JVM is a monster on its own. Easily a multi billion dollar of investment over all these years. Or something using less man hours and resources like LuaJIT. But then Mike Pall is a super human. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey |
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