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> Google made javascript pretty fast. A small outsourced team in Denmark did, actually. Sure, they were hired by Google, but that kind of belies your argument
by frandroid 11y ago
> Google made javascript pretty fast.
A small outsourced team in Denmark did, actually. Sure, they were hired by Google, but that kind of belies your argument that only a large corp can do this, no?
- stcredzero 11y agoAlso, Sun making Java fast was due to Hotspot, which was inspired by work on Self, the successor to Smalltalk.
- asolove 11y agoFor sure, a small team can do the work. The question is: who will pay them to? Your five smart compiler friends could maybe get contract work making specific hotspots a bit faster for some specific medium-sized company. But who is going to finance them rebuilding the whole approach from scratch over several years, in a way that benefits a whole platform rather than just their company, and shelter the team from short-term priorities and reorgs? That takes a big company that has an enormous economic stake in the entire platform.