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by jws 6070 days ago
I wish his summary charts were less binary. He shades the "winner" algorithm's box green. But many of those wins are insignificant.

I don't think I'd inflict ~~(1*"12.5") on someone for an insignificant gain when a parseInt() is obvious. (I also suspect that at least one of those implementations constant folded it.)

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Maybe this was aimed as compiler writers (Google Closure), not the poor programmers?