BuzzwordChief

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   by BuzzwordChief 4y ago

   It is not about the interpreter. You just can't express performant code in these languages. JIT compilation makes Javascript faster, but it is not by any metric "fast".
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   by BuzzwordChief 4y ago

   > JavaScript with V8 is one of the fastest interpreted languages. It is absurdly slow compared to any compiled language. > Even React isn't all that slow. Yes, it is. > I don't know what it is yet (happy to be pointed som
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   by BuzzwordChief 4y ago

   > improving the algorithm or eliminating a SELECT N can make a difference of multiple orders of magnitude Yes and no. The main source of slowness in modern software is memory access (patterns). Yes, a binary search is just O(log(n)) but