On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to you both. No, i'm not suggesting that there be any optimization > effort. i'm just curious. Most software dev managers would probably cringe > at that amount of "duplication", but as you but say, it's not really > duplication. > But it would be interesting to get your opinions: having developed v8 this way for so long, do you (as the developers) feel that the time spent in platform-specific code "would have been better spent" on instead writing a fast VM, as opposed to aggressively targeting the speed benefits of native code? Again, i'm not arguing one way or the other, i'm just curious about how the devs feel about it. i was always surprised at the focus of generating machine-specific code, but as an old SpiderMonkey user i can say that the speed benefits of v8 are very visible to clients. (When i first did some simple benchmarks on v8, i compared it to my older SpiderMonkey code and function calls in tight loops were 200 _times_ faster on v8.) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
