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It's not really a good blanket statement that compiled languages are significantly faster. There are a lot of problems getting tools written in JavaScript to ru
by klodolph 5y ago
It's not really a good blanket statement that compiled languages are significantly faster. There are a lot of problems getting tools written in JavaScript to run fast, and the fact that JavaScript is "not compiled" is a bit farther down the list. There are other pressing issues, like the fact that code written in Go, like esbuild, is free to run multiple threads and freely share data structures between threads.
The distinction between compiled and interpreted languages is also a bit fuzzy to begin with.
- gmaster1440 5y agoYes, as the link I shared mentions, there's concurrency via actual threads, and proper memory sharing—by no means implying compilation is all there is, but it does seem at the very least to be a contributing factor, and understanding the change to bottom-line performance would still be welcome.