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by chuckcode 4229 days ago
Does Cosmos have any characteristics that would allow easy JIT speed optimizations? I would love to see language design go green by allowing easy optimizations that help us save both our valuable electricity and our time.

Are there design patterns that would allow us to more easily enable JIT for performance or even multithreading or GPU usage? V8, FTL and SpiderMonkey have all significantly sped up javascript performance making for much more efficient execution and better user experience. Python and PHP seem harder to adapt to JIT compilers as Facebook keeps working on HHVM for PHP and JITs for Python like PyPy lots of compatibility issues with existing libraries.

p.s. I for one really appreciate the entertainment value of exaggerated and opinionated style as long as the author realizes it is partly for entertainment, calls it out in the title and clearly isn't taking themselves too seriously. I already read enough serious and earnest tech articles...