JavaScript Performance Pitfalls in V8

1 · Nicolás Bevacqua · March 5, 2019, 4:32 p.m.
In recent years, JavaScript engines have improved on all fronts. The performance of JavaScript has reached a level where it can easily compete with programming languages that have traditionally been considered more appropriate for high-performance computing. This is not only true for V8, the JavaScript engine inside of Chrome and Node.js, but for all major JavaScript engines, including ChakraCore, the engine inside of Edge, JavaScriptCore, the engine inside of Safari, and SpiderMonkey, the engin...