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Comment by DarkNova6

> JavaScript isn't as fast as C++ or Rust, but it's pretty fast. Around the speed of Java and Go in some cases, which are compiled.

Sorry, not even remotely close. I want to see some serious evidence.

JS id as unoptimizable as can be, thanks to its hyper dynamic nature. And js developers without any clue about memory will happily allocate hundreds of thousands of unnecessary objects to save a line of code. Completely unknowingly of course.

parent DarkNova6 3 years ago

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