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I don't understand the rationale behind using V8 for server code. Yes V8 is a general purpose JavaScript engine but ultimately all of the performance trade-offs
by dxhdr 8y ago
I don't understand the rationale behind using V8 for server code. Yes V8 is a general purpose JavaScript engine but ultimately all of the performance trade-offs and design decisions are made with browsers as the optimization target.
It sounds like Ryan is still interested in making V8 work so I have to ask: why do you want to be writing server code on a client browser engine?
- sametmax 8y agoBecause that's the best existing engine (even with Zilla nicely catching up), with dozen of genius and millions of dollars dedicated to it since the beginning and for the next years to come. Why do you think JS became so much faster compared to the anemic octopus is was before ? And can you imagine the perf of Ruby or Python if a 10th of those resources were allocated to those ?