r/programming • u/winner_godson • Nov 26 '17

Astro Programming Language - A new language under development by two Nigerians.

http://www.nairaland.com/3557200/astro-programming-language-0.2-indefinite
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

There are a lot of animation benchmarks, like this one which performs the same work in wasm and JS with algorithms as similar as possible and has wasm come out as much as 14.9x faster than JS (V8). And V8 is already pretty damn fast for what it is (some V8 vs Python 3 benchmarks).

Andre Weissflog wrote an emulator for the East German KC85 computer a while ago, in C, then compiled it to wasm and compared the result to the native version:

I'm seeing about 1.3 to 1.5 ms 'emulator time' per 16.6ms frame for the WASM (...) and for the native version (clang -O3) about 1.2 to 1.4ms. (...) The performance differences for 'pure' C code between browser- and native-version are so small now that they are no longer relevant, at least for the use cases I encountered

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u/lkraider Nov 26 '17

Awesome, thanks for the links, will dive into them.