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If that diversity doesn't lead to better results then it isn't necessary. I wouldn't consider the oligarchs of Js engines to be diversity, nor inherently innova
by devwastaken 7y ago
If that diversity doesn't lead to better results then it isn't necessary. I wouldn't consider the oligarchs of Js engines to be diversity, nor inherently innovative. In the past there has no doubt been innovation, but currently it has significantly stagnated.
Wasm was not what was promised. Mozilla and the other vendors just translated the wasm bytecode to js bytecode. All it did was skip a few steps. Yet the actual requirements for performance, simd, was ignored in its proposal. It has been a significant under delivery overall.
- hk__2 7y ago> If that diversity doesn't lead to better results then it isn't necessary. It does, so it’s necessary. Performance is not the only one result we care about.
- devwastaken 7y agoIf they were innovating then spidermonkey would be comparable or better than v8. It isn't. It's effectively proprietary to Firefox. Id call that the opposite of diversity.