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by Cicero22 541 days ago
This sort of work is something I wouldn't be able to do, but I can't help but point out at least one potential issue with the paper. It's a lot easier to find problems than solutions I guess.

Are the benchmarks comparing node versions valid to conclude a real world performance increase?

one possible confounder is the version of V8.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v18.x/deps/v8/include/v8... https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v20.x/deps/v8/include/v8...

ideally, they would've patched Node 18.15 with their changes directly and test their patch against 18.15.