[Development] [BB++] Now is 3.5x faster than Node.JS

[Tomasz Siekierda]

On 25 July 2017 at 03:09, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's why you have to put chances on your side. Regarding the GC all you
> have to do is look at the logs:
> http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2012/06/on-android-garbage-collection-can-kill-you

What killed the performance in this case was not GC but bad design,
unfit for the platform. Read the article through, and the comments. In
the end, the author got comparable performance on Android and desktop
(while Android was still using GC). Additionally, the post is from 5
years ago, a lot could have been improved in that period.


Mind you, the bb++ idea seems tempting. JS is not the nicest language
around, it would be cool to have an alternative, esp. if the learning
curve is small and benefits large. I'd just prefer it to be compiled
at compile time (at the same time when C++ part is compiled), cause
shipping the compiler with an app seems wasteful at best.