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The big surprise for me is where Perl stands in the rankings, below Javascript in all three tests.
by oblib 8y ago
The big surprise for me is where Perl stands in the rankings, below Javascript in all three tests.
- ashton314 8y agoAmen: I'd have to take a look at the actual code in use.
- igouy 8y agoYou can, the authors of the paper provide the actual code they used on their website.
- alangpierce 8y agoJavaScript usually runs quite a bit faster than other dynamic languages (after JIT warmup), not because it's fundamentally any faster, just because modern JS engines are so good. Browser competition has meant that the amount of engineering work put into JS performance is much, much more than just about any other language.