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by charrondev 608 days ago
In the JavaScript world a lot of speed up comes from 3 major things as far as I can tell:

- easier concurrency. - the fact that things are actually getting rewritten with the purpose of speeding them up. - a lot of the JS tooling getting speedups deals with heavily with string parsing, tokenizing, generating and manipulation of ASTs. Being able to have shared references to slices of strings, carefully manage when strings are copied, and have strict typing of the AST nodes you enable things to be much faster than JavaScript.