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> has near native performance what do you mean by this? https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison https

• glutamate 3y ago
  Much faster than Python or almost any non-native-compiled language (except Java)
  • threeseed 3y ago
    Python is a notoriously slow language so that's not saying much. And there are a number of languages on the JVM e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure as well as countless compiled ones which are near-native.
    • glutamate 3y ago
      JVM languages do look interesting and with Graal there seems to be an evolutionary upgrade path from JavaScript code.
  • arp242 3y ago
    "Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".
• hajile 3y ago
  The second you remove threading and SIMD from those examples, they get rather close to JS. At most, you are making the argument that killing JS-SIMD for WASM and not adding native threading support was a mistake.
  • datadeft 3y ago
    > The second you remove threading and SIMD Anything else?
    • hajile 3y ago
      AsmJS coercion hints still work, so not really. Monomorphic code and some optimization can take you a surprisingly long way toward good performance. You certainly won’t find that in most untyped languages.
• igouy 3y ago
  > speed-comparison a tiny tiny ten-line snippet of code https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/toosimple.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...