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		mhansen on Sept 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator I heard an interview with Brendan Eich from last year where he says there are still many javascript optimizations that haven't been attacked yet, that there is still a lot of low-hanging fruit. He also predicted speeds bordering on C within a few years. [EDIT] Source: http://perseus.franklins.net/hanselminutes_0130.pdf

wallflower on Sept 17, 2009 [–]

Yes, Java is a statically-typed language but remember how Java performed before JIT compilers? It was closer to Perl than C.

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