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That’s only relevant for browser side JS, though. V8 has a monopoly on server side JS. It’s quite slow on its own, but the bloat that people pile on top of it
by 10000truths 4y ago
That’s only relevant for browser side JS, though. V8 has a monopoly on server side JS. It’s quite slow on its own, but the bloat that people pile on top of it makes it even slower. And V8 is definitely not “the fastest” interpreted language - I have found that LuaJIT performs much better for my scripting needs.
- CharlesW 4y ago> And V8 is definitely not “the fastest” interpreted language - I have found that LuaJIT performs much better for my needs. According to a 2021 performance test¹, Lua with LuaJIT is slower than JavaScript with V8. Note that the "quite slow" JavaScript running on V8 is nearly as fast as Java. ¹ https://eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2021/07-13-performance-comparison-c-vs-java-vs-javascript-vs-luajit-vs-pypy-vs-php-vs-python-vs-perl/ https://eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2021/07-13-performance-comp...
- emilecantin 4y agoYeah, but V8 is Chrome's engine, which _is_ in competition for fastest engine against Safari, Firefox & Edge (although Edge isn't much of a competitor anymore).