Topics /

Software Engineering

The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 679 posts.

2011
585

Actual JavaScript Engine Performance

JSMeter: Measuring JavaScript Behavior in the Wild showed that benchmarks are not representative of the behavior of real web applications. But lacking credible benchmarks, engine developers are tuning to what they have. The danger is that the performance of the engines will be tuned to non-representative benchmarks…