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		darkarmani on Jan 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaSc... What is V8 speed? Without actually quantifying anything this is all just bull shitting. For all I know V8 is slower and they are asking why python and ruby aren't as slow as V8. Secondly, if we assume the question is saying that V8 is faster, is it faster than vectorized numpy functions? Without specifics in mind, this question is just to start a language war.

MBCook on Jan 17, 2015 [–]

I disagree. The history of browsers of the past couple of years shown the JavaScript has sped up tremendously compared to older browsers.

While python and ruby may be getting faster they're not seeing those order of magnitude speedups that we've seen in JavaScript.

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