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0 pointsgoggles9913y ago0 comments

>Turing equivalence and not even turing equivalence but 2 pieces of code with roughly the same functionality does not dictate the speed between them. You seem to be under some sort of misconception that two pieces of code have to be implemented in the same

I am merely pointing out that there is overhead with every VM. This is especially true with every current JITted JavaScript in use today (more so than with the JVM and CLR). So how could it possibly be faster if both implementations use an equal amount of optimization otherwise.

How is this even ever an argument?

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rat8713y ago· 1 in thread

> So how could it possibly be faster if both implementations use an equal amount of optimization otherwise.

Who says they are?

goggles99OP13y ago

Anyone who says that JS or X other VM dependent language can be faster than C must say this to have a leg to stand on.

They cannot say this??? Thus my point...

tptacek13y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

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