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> JavaScript will mop up most CLI apps in performance I'll bet half the coreutils are a minimum of 10x slower in their day-to-day use cases (i.e. small n) when
by rcoveson 6y ago
> JavaScript will mop up most CLI apps in performance
I'll bet half the coreutils are a minimum of 10x slower in their day-to-day use cases (i.e. small n) when re-implemented in any interpreted language like JS. Cold start overhead matters a lot for CLI programs.