We are developing a web-app, so we have no choice as to client-side language. As for server-side, so far v8cgi has proven quite efficient and as far as I know it is much more efficient than any other VM for a language with a similar level of expressiveness.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Avital Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good afternoon friends, > ... > > We're pretty confused. > > Indeed weird, but something to consider: if you're optimizing to try > to squeeze out 20 extra microseconds (which could in fact be > introduced by any number of system-level details independent of v8), > JavaScript _might_ not be the ideal language for your project. In my > experience v8 is "fast as hell" as far as JS goes, but JS was never, > and probably will never be a, a high-performance language. More and > more people (based on previous posts here) seem to feel that JS is > suitable for high-performance/scientific/massively parallel computing. > But it's not. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
