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> but I wonder if the v8 team is chasing benchmarks at the expense of real-world code that might not be so perfectly written. They aren't. V8's benchmark perf
by insanitybit 3y ago
> but I wonder if the v8 team is chasing benchmarks at the expense of real-world code that might not be so perfectly written.
They aren't. V8's benchmark performance for this benchmark has been stagnant because they haven't cared about it for a long time. Firefox has an incentive to care about it (unfortunately) because even when a benchmark doesn't matter it still looks bad to be behind on it.
- IainIreland 3y agoTo be clear, Firefox doesn't care about this benchmark either. It just so happens that changes we made for Speedometer also improved our performance here, which is a fun coincidence but not important in the grand scheme of things. (Speedometer is the benchmark that most closely approximates messy real-world code.)
- insanitybit 3y agoThanks for clarifying, that's interesting + good to know.