はてなブックマーク

In my previous article, I was talking about NodeJS and why it’s fast. Today, I want to talk about V8. I suppose, some of you heard that JavaScript executes as fast as C++. Some of you don’t understand how it’s even possible. JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language with Just in Time (JIT) compilation, when C++ is static-typed language with Ahead of Time (AoT) compilation. And somehow, optimised