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Dear lord people are getting pointlessly defensive and aggressive. Obviously this article is not referencing the full V8 engine, but a light version that may or
by non-entity 7y ago
Dear lord people are getting pointlessly defensive and aggressive. Obviously this article is not referencing the full V8 engine, but a light version that may or may not make it into Chromium
You might want to re-read the HN guidelines
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
- hwillis 7y agoThe article is about how many of the lite mode optimizations were added to the last 7 v8 releases, resulting in an 18% reduction vs lite mode's 22%. The people responding to you are making the case that the 18% reduction is basically as good as.
- Scarbutt 7y agoYou missed these guideline: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." So, the article mentions that.
- apendleton 7y ago> Obviously this article is not referencing the full V8 engine, but a light version that may or may not make it into Chromium Obviously? Right from the second sentence, the article says: > Initially this project was envisioned as a separate Lite mode of V8 specifically aimed at low-memory mobile devices or embedder use-cases that care more about reduced memory usage than throughput execution speed. However, in the process of this work, we realized that many of the memory optimizations we had made for this Lite mode could be brought over to regular V8 thereby benefiting all users of V8.
- dang 7y agoOk, but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the guidelines yourself, as in the first sentence above. I realize it's hard to do when someone has replied to you with a provocative swipe, but it's even more necessary in such cases.