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True, but since V8 is open-source, shouldn't it now be possible for the Ruby developers to borrow the techniques from it that made Javascript so much faster?
by nikbackm 13y ago
True, but since V8 is open-source, shouldn't it now be possible for the Ruby developers to borrow the techniques from it that made Javascript so much faster?
- dragonwriter 13y agoRuby isn't JavaScript. Studying V8's solutions to particular problems with making JavaScript efficient may help people seeking to make an efficient Ruby implementation, but how much is easily transferrable I don't know.
- vidarh 13y agoNone of the techniques that's gone into V8 are all that novel. Most of them - at least the ones that are relevant to Ruby - stems from research around Smalltalk and Self that's been well known for a very long time. The hard/time consuming part is implementing them.