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I know this is (maybe) a little nit-picky, but what exactly does "blazingly fast" mean here? The README compares its performance in benchmarks against Lua, but
by thosakwe 8y ago
I know this is (maybe) a little nit-picky, but what exactly does "blazingly fast" mean here? The README compares its performance in benchmarks against Lua, but Lua is not necessarily "blazingly fast" either when compared to outputs from C, C++, Rust, etc.
It's a term I hear everywhere (especially in the JS world), but I don't really understand what it implies.
- palaiologos 8y agoJavaScript is often misusing this term, I'll benchmark Euboea against Rust or C++ soon.
- PezzaDev 8y agoIt frustrates me too. I'm always on the look out for languages that implement modern performance approaches into their design. I'd love to see a language that focuses on data orientated design, auto-vectorisation and possibly something like reference capabilities for concurrent programming. That language would truly be "blazingly fast".
- mrspeaker 8y ago"Blazingly" is the "literally" of software project speak. It means nothing.
- otabdeveloper2 8y ago> ...but I don't really understand what it implies It means "faster than the slowest language currently in common use, I guess".