JaroslavTulach: New page: Bck2Brwsr version 0.17 is faster. Ten years ago nobody would imagine dynamic languages could get as good performance as they have now. The feeling that JavaScript just can't be fas...

JaroslavTulach — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:47:57 GMT

New page: Bck2Brwsr version 0.17 is faster. Ten years ago nobody would imagine dynamic languages could get as good performance as they have now. The feeling that JavaScript just can't be fas...

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[[Bck2Brwsr]] version 0.17 is faster. Ten years ago nobody would imagine dynamic languages could get as good performance as they have now. The feeling that [[JavaScript]] just can't be fast is presumably present in many of our souls. The truth is, it can be relatively fast - not as fast as [[Java]] as my experiment with [https://github.com/jtulach/sieve Sieve of Eratosthenes] shows, but pretty damn fast. Certainly not an excuse to be ten times slower than [[HotSpot]] (which was the previous state of [[Bck2Brwsr]]).

The daily work on [[Truffle]] compiler team and the time [[I]] got when traveling from ''Snowcamp'' at Grenoble gave me a chance to speed [[Bck2Brwsr]] up. The [https://github.com/jtulach/sieve sieve] being a nice - e.g. small and focused - benchmark. Originally the algorithm couldn't be finished in a reasonable time when running on old version of [[Bck2Brwsr]], but knowing what optimizing compilers seek for, it was relatively easy to speed it up ten times.

With great pleasure [[I]] announce that [[Bck2Brwsr]], the most complete [[Java]] [[VM]] in browser (that can run [[Javac]] as shown by [[Dew]] project) has been sped up many times being at most three times slower than [[HotSpot]]. Given the primary goal of [[Bck2Brwsr]] is [[modularity]] and not speed, [[I]] consider it a [[good]] sped up even knowing there is a room to make it even faster.

Enjoy the [http://xelfi.cz/minesweeper/bck2brwsr/ Bck2Brwsr 0.17's speed]!

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JaroslavTulach: New page: Bck2Brwsr version 0.17 is faster. Ten years ago nobody would imagine dynamic languages could get as good performance as they have now. The feeling that JavaScript just can't be fas...