>> that show JavaScript (or Java, or PHP, or whichever slower language you prefer to use instead) as being as fast as C or C++ <<
I've learned that it's unrealistic to expect someone to have actually looked at "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" before pointing to it as an example for whatever point they wish to make ;-)
The only mystery here is why you think we wouldn't notice that "the implementation has been highly tuned" etc applies just as much to the C and C++ programs as to the JavaScript programs.
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>> that show JavaScript (or Java, or PHP, or whichever slower language you prefer to use instead) as being as fast as C or C++ <<
I've learned that it's unrealistic to expect someone to have actually looked at "The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" before pointing to it as an example for whatever point they wish to make ;-)
The only mystery here is why you think we wouldn't notice that "the implementation has been highly tuned" etc applies just as much to the C and C++ programs as to the JavaScript programs.