If v8 falls behind it's competitors we'll move to another vm. v8 and node have aligned goals about performance which makes us a good fit, if that ever stops being the case we're lucky enough to be using a language with many competing vms.
Node will continue to get faster and won't suffer a slow vm :) Node can be used for computationally intensive tasks as well as IO, Mozilla's BrowserID does lots of crypto for instance. -Mikeal On Mar 12, 2012, at March 12, 20123:01 PM, Ted Young wrote: > Hey great. If I could make one comment about the left side of the bike shed, > the "node is faster" tenet kind of threw me off a bit. I mean, I use node > because it's efficient - and often fast - for doing lots of io. But I feel > like there will always be a neckbeard popping up to to show how something > else is "faster" at some particular task, and anyways a lot of the speed is > v8's responsibility. And there's certainly been at least one case were > optimizations were rolled back in favor of stability. *shrug* > > Oooh ooh, maybe one possible addition? "Node is for IO"? I feel like that's > a distinction that is often made. > > Ted > On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote: > >> One thing node is lacking is a clear set of principals and/or philosophy. >> Nothing too serious, something along the lines of Python's PEP 20 Zen of >> Python. Pulling from the history of the project and decisions already made >> and refined through comments from close friends and node contributors this >> is what I'm calling "The Way of Node". >> >> http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/the-way-of-node.html >> >> Nothing official, we don't really do "official", but it's the first time I >> think some of our principals have been stated concisely. >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
