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azakai on May 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython

JITs are great but can be unpredictable, that's probably the cause. As mentioned in the article, JITs vs AOT have upsides and downsides.

steveklabnik on May 6, 2014 [–]

Doesn't Chrome specifically _not_ optimize asm.js, as well? Wonder if that has anything to do with it.

zurn on May 6, 2014 | [–]

It doesn't special case the asm.js JS subset same way as Firefox does, but V8 guys are paying attention to optimizing asm.js-style code.

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