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ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

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Re: ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

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Post by pwdisswordfish4 »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #278
pwdisswordfish4 wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “fast” languages What are those?

C++, Rust, .Net would qualify, Go (doesn’t have a “release mode as such, but achieved decent speed), Julia, etc Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance.

> .Net

Not a programming language. (And you seemed to have missed the point; a "fast language" is essentially a nonsense term.)

> Anything that makes an actual attempt at optimising for performance.

So something like any of the modern JS engines...?

Re: ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

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tatersolid wrote: post #309
aidenn0 wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C was the K&R book, PASCAL was the User manual and Report. These were the platonic ideals of the languages. The specification was the language, the fact that there was an implementation was a bonus. I never once in my comments above said "formal" so perhaps we are meaning two very different things by "specification." No version of Cs specification since K&R has done away with undefined, nor implementation defined beh…

> C was the K&R book How could this be when zero implementations behaved in accordance with K&R? The authors and fans may have claimed it as a “spec”, but it never was a functional “spec” in the real world.

That's the point. The language spec was the platonic ideal, and implementations were just imperfect realizations. There were actual languages that still have no implementations.
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