On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is simply not true in general. If your application is > processor-limited and written in an interpreted language, do you think it > would get faster if you re-wrote it in C (assuming we are discussing a good > programmer)? You're damned right it would!
I have seen significant counter examples (processor limited application, written in an interpreted language, also written in C by a good programmer - C version significantly slower). That said, the interpreter was not javascript and was itself written in C, so there's that, also. (Point being once things reach a certain level of complexity, issues like available developer time and architectural decisions and so on can become rather significant. Also, I suppose, another point is that even useful general statements can have counter examples.) (Still, another issue is that web browsers fail, a lot: one person's "better" is another person's "worse" and web browsers are caught between billions of people and their conflicts.) -- Raul
