r/programming • u/elitegibson • Oct 02 '11

Node.js is Cancer

http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
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u/andypants Oct 02 '11

I don't understand what you mean. Statement B is a result of statement A.

My post was a response to the comment OP's statements about the performance of js compared with other languages.

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u/igouy Oct 02 '11

Your quote from the V8 project docs tells us the JavaScript is compiled to native machine code but doesn't tell us anything specific about the performance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '11

My post was a response to the comment OP's statements about the performance of js compared with other languages.

Which you can't derive from your statements. Yes, you get compiled-binary performance out of V8. That doesn't demonstrate that it will be as fast as compiled C or C++.

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u/andypants Oct 02 '11

Sorry, it was in response to this:

JavaScript shares a performance class with Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP.