Interesting. I didn't know this. I understand that actually getting speed out of JS for binary data is still quite 'hacky' though, for instance Fabrice Bellard

Interesting. I didn't know this. I understand that actually getting speed out of JS for binary data is still quite 'hacky' though, for instance Fabrice Bellard used Typed Arrays extensively implementing his Linux-on-Javascript project: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html