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Not sure what to make of this research. It's not like I can switch out JS in favor of these other languages (many of which are compiled binaries) in my web apps

Not sure what to make of this research. It's not like I can switch out JS in favor of these other languages (many of which are compiled binaries) in my web apps. The performance of for example web servers written in the different languages entirely would seem more interesting to compare. The JS/TS comparison was directly fishy. I found no mention in the paper of how they managed to "run" the tasks in Typescript, which AFAIK is not possible, or at least not how one would do it in a real life.

snek 8y ago
Maybe you can switch it out :) https://webassembly.org/ https://webassembly.org/
- dentemple 8y ago
  It wouldn't be switching out. You'd just be running WASM.
  - goatlover 8y ago
    Instead of a binary. You're running whatever the language compiles to. So then it depends on how efficient the WASM compiler is compared to the binary on whatever platform, and compared to JS.
blihp 8y ago
Just use it as another ballpark reference of what trade-offs are being made when going with one language or another. Not really any different than any other language benchmark/shootout comparison. Unless you have very large numbers of [users|servers|whatever] to amortize the cost of going one way vs another over, it's probably not worth even considering trying to change anything on your end. More likely, your personal or team productivity is the much more important metric to optimize for anyways. If you're doing things at FAANG scale, it's an entirely different story.
Barrin92 8y ago
>Not sure what to make of this research. It's not like I can switch out JS in favor of these other languages Nope but for iot devices or anything in a scenario with scarce energy resources or difficulty to remove heat it's an interesting datapoint. Although I think the results conform mostly with intuition. I doubt anybody would voluntarily compile a lot of haskell on their space satellite

snek 8y ago

Maybe you can switch it out :) https://webassembly.org/ https://webassembly.org/

dentemple 8y ago
It wouldn't be switching out. You'd just be running WASM.
- goatlover 8y ago
  Instead of a binary. You're running whatever the language compiles to. So then it depends on how efficient the WASM compiler is compared to the binary on whatever platform, and compared to JS.

blihp 8y ago

Just use it as another ballpark reference of what trade-offs are being made when going with one language or another. Not really any different than any other language benchmark/shootout comparison. Unless you have very large numbers of [users|servers|whatever] to amortize the cost of going one way vs another over, it's probably not worth even considering trying to change anything on your end. More likely, your personal or team productivity is the much more important metric to optimize for anyways. If you're doing things at FAANG scale, it's an entirely different story.

Barrin92 8y ago

>Not sure what to make of this research. It's not like I can switch out JS in favor of these other languages Nope but for iot devices or anything in a scenario with scarce energy resources or difficulty to remove heat it's an interesting datapoint. Although I think the results conform mostly with intuition. I doubt anybody would voluntarily compile a lot of haskell on their space satellite