moisy

numbers seem less important considering the run times.

Just because this is a software not an English book.

Reproduced the lower node 0.11.10 performance on gentoo.

time node core_engine_benchmark.js

as author answered below comment, the performance gain/loss could be from switches hence the combination of latest v8/node

Clearly the blog posting focuses around the second item (as a biggest replacement reasoning) which is available on both new and old v8. I couldn't reproduce the same problem on i.e. spidermonkey cli but it's visible on node 0.10.26 / 0.11.13

What does that mean?

After the hearthbleed incident at least a title was expected.

"The company also gave him four free games, $50 (£30), and a year-long subscription to Xbox Live." .. wondering the titles!

"I spend most of my waking hours writing all sorts of crazy things in node, and I still can't think of any scenario in which using this makes sense."

> You are not alone. remember node.js team members were doing the same in the past but couldn't finish it.

Obviously there are many scenarios this could help.

Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about. LLVM can beat V8. As far as I understand, he put LLVM frontend intogether to see the results and it's not the part of the project yet.

and Lua .. how Unity3D uses javascript is also related.