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What I'm saying is that there's no amount of money that Google can spend to make v8 5x or 10x faster for these stateful, object- /pointer-rich workloads. It's
by chubot 4y ago
What I'm saying is that there's no amount of money that Google can spend to make v8 5x or 10x faster for these stateful, object- /pointer-rich workloads.
It's not a matter of investment.
The language is the bottleneck, not the runtime. It's better to change the language and get 100%-500% improvement, not eke out 5% from the runtime. That's trying squeeze blood out of a stone.
"proper JIT history" -- this claim doesn't make sense.
- pjmlp 4y agoWe are discussing here performance for CLI applications, not AAA game engines. As for the claim, it makes perfect sense, when PyPy never went beyond a research project largely ignored by the Python community during the last 20 years, while other attemtps never achived half of what JS, Lisp, Scheme, Smalltalk have done.