Speaking pragmatically, for myself and my unusual (server-side) environment:
On 13 September 2011 10:48, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Does JS need to be as fast as Java? Would half as fast be enough? > If it's compute-bound then that's plenty. Provided we develop so that we can scale across cores, I can double my compute this month for about the same dollar cost as 0.1% programmer-time. My estimate is that type annotations would be far more expensive; as we don't generally have type-related bugs in our JS code, spending time annotating only for the sake of execution speed would be a poor decision. Wes -- Wesley W. Garland Director, Product Development PageMail, Inc. +1 613 542 2787 x 102
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