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You're right, Java should have been included along with the other languages I mentioned. As a strongly-typed, compiled language, it should indeed beat V8 handil
by kentonv 9y ago
You're right, Java should have been included along with the other languages I mentioned. As a strongly-typed, compiled language, it should indeed beat V8 handily. I had intended to say that V8 outperforms other dynamically-typed languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.
But because startup time and RAM usage are so important to our use case, Java has never been in the running as a plausible implementation choice, so to be honest I sort of forgot about it. :/
- bad_user 9y agoYes, I admit the startup time for the JVM is terrible and your choice of V8 makes sense in that light. Plus indeed people will be able to use WebAssembly and compile languages like Rust to it.