[whatwg] Endianness of typed arrays

[John Tamplin]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote:

> > The result was increased polymorphism at call sites, which defeated the
> Java VM's
> > optimizing compiler and led to 10x slowdowns in many common
> > situations.
>
> FWIW, I think this has no bearing at all on JS.
>

Check out this blog post about optimization in V8, in particular the
difference between monomorphic and polymorphic calls and the effect on
inlining:

http://floitsch.blogspot.com/2012/03/optimizing-for-v8-hydrogen.html

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John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google