Re: [JS-internals] Improving JavaScript Performance by Deconstructing the Type System

2014-06-19 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 6/20/14, 12:19 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: So a few interesting things jump out at me: Oh, and thank you for posting the link, Nicholas! -Boris ___ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list dev-tech-js-engine-internals@lists.mozilla.org https://list

Re: [JS-internals] Improving JavaScript Performance by Deconstructing the Type System

2014-06-19 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 6/19/14, 8:56 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: It's an analysis of V8, and describes how it is over-specialized for benchmarks vs. real code and how they fixed it. Required reading for some of the people on this list! So a few interesting things jump out at me: 1) The |new function() { ... }

[JS-internals] Improving JavaScript Performance by Deconstructing the Type System

2014-06-19 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
Hi, Interesting paper from PLDI 2014 which was last week: http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pldi14.pdf It's an analysis of V8, and describes how it is over-specialized for benchmarks vs. real code and how they fixed it. Required reading for some of the people on this list! Nick __