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> you also saw the V8 folks give up and make Dart V8 still got substantially faster after the first team left to do Dart. A lot of runtime optimizations (think

by titzer 10mo ago

> you also saw the V8 folks give up and make Dart V8 still got substantially faster after the first team left to do Dart. A lot of runtime optimizations (think object model optimizations), several new compilers, and a lot of GC work. It's a huge investment to make a dynamic language go as fast as JS these days.

eru 10mo ago
> It's a huge investment to make a dynamic language go as fast as JS these days. Yes, and on the other hand, other language implementations like CPython can learn from everything people figured out for JS.