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		int64 on April 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Would you use JavaScript compiled to C for your se... Absolutely. Node.js is still interpreted by V8 as far as i know. The runtime libs provided by node.js are all written in JS. However, With this initiative, all the runtime libs will be implemented in c as well.

zerohp on April 9, 2014 [–]

V8 is a JIT interpreter. The performance benefit might be less than you would think.

int64 on April 9, 2014 | [–]

thanks for the input. Will certainly look into that.

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