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by courage 5148 days ago
The time required to JIT compile code apparently has a big effect on web browser JavaScript performance. Web pages often have a lot of cold code that isn't run often.

JavaScriptCore is getting a new fast interpreter that will be the first choice way to run code that hasn't proven hot: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108309
1 comments
justincormack 5148 days ago
Well there certainly is a lot of scope to make a faster interpreter, as eg according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187901 the Luajit interpreter is faster than compiled v8...
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cygx 5148 days ago
I'd be surprised if that's still true today. V8 used to be consistently slower than LuaJIT, but has caught up since then.
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justincormack 5148 days ago
Would be interested in an update, but was actually referring to Javascript interpreters, which were very slow.
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dmpk2k 5148 days ago
What makes you think it has caught up?
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