On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 01:41:38 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/19/2012 4:54 PM, Rob T wrote:
One question I have for you, is what percentage performance
gain can you expect
to get by using a well chosen bytecode-like language verses
interpreting
directly from source code?
I know of zero claims that making a bytecode standard for
javascript will improve performance.
One data point along this line, the most popular javascript
implementation these days is v8, which is implemented as a
javascript compiler, not with bytecode:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/08/02/a-closer-look-at-crankshaft-v8s-optimizing-compiler
More interesting posts about v8 on that blog:
http://wingolog.org/tags/v8
