Taking a step back from the details of this proposal, I have some thoughts about why it seems to be struggling to find support.
In no particular order, I would say this proposal - relies on microbenchmarks, which can be misleading <https://tomdale.net/2017/07/adventures-in-microbenchmarking/> - disregards Amdahl's Law <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law>, by pretending that real-world JS CPU usage is commonly/ever dominated by min/max computations - replaces two O(n) loops with another O(n) loop that does slightly more work on each iteration, resulting in no complexity improvement, and a fairly modest (< 2x) constant factor improvement - doesn't seem to provide usability/learnability improvements for any particular group of JS developers (for example, novice programmers) - doesn't seem to prevent any common bugs in JS code As a member of TC39, I regret that we have not provided a clearer set of criteria for what it takes to get a new function into the standard library. While I can't speak for the committee as a whole, my suspicion is that this proposal is unlikely to meet that standard. It's a fine idea, but so are many other functions that you can implement in a normal (non-standard) library. I would also challenge the committee to think about (or link to!) any concrete written criteria that someone with an idea for a proposal could use to assess its chances of acceptance. Imagine how much time we could save! Ben On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:12 PM Xavier Stouder <[email protected]> wrote: > JDecker: Just added your solution on the benchmark, it beats every > others solution and it's a elegant solution. > > Kai Zhu: We can't see the screenshot. But please take in consideration > that it's been a long time that ECMAScript isn't only used in webapp, > and that some of applications using it can eat more than a million > numbers. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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