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It sounds like you actually have done some benchmarking and understand the places it really is necessary to get to the bare metal. Many forget that most code d
by couchand 13y ago
It sounds like you actually have done some benchmarking and understand the places it really is necessary to get to the bare metal. Many forget that most code doesn't have to be that fast (see: premature optimization). Much better to save developer cycles.
Besides, I thought we were talking about server-side JS, where a native CoffeeScript implementation is a completely reasonable proposition.
- malandrew 13y agoTrue, however even the server-side CS code gets compiled to JavaScript before execution by node.js. At least with the server though, you can enjoy the benefit of throwing more servers at the problem or you can write high-performance code in optimized C.
- couchand 13y agoThere's no reason server-side CoffeeScript must be compiled to Javascript, that's just the most common example. There are native implementations, like Poetics [1]. And note that high level languages are starting to really encroach on C's performance crown [2]. [1] https://github.com/brixen/poetics https://github.com/brixen/poetics [2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-are-fastest.php http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...