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Yes, I pretty much had the same thought, but then I started thinking about multiple dispatch, calling C/Fortran libraries, polyhedral optimizations, and I reali
by ViralBShah 15y ago
Yes, I pretty much had the same thought, but then I started thinking about multiple dispatch, calling C/Fortran libraries, polyhedral optimizations, and I realized that V8 developers may not have the same design targets in mind.
- pron 15y ago... and the JVM (HotSpot) is even better than V8.
- StefanKarpinski 15y agoI feel like V8 faces a harder problem and has solved it ingeniously. Not to knock HotSpot, which is excellent and keeps getting better — it just seems like making the JVM go fast is not as hard as making something like JavaScript go fast. It's a tough comparison; kind of apples to oranges.