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The Washington Post has a retrospective on 14 years of Mark Zuckerberg saying sorry, not sorry:
From the moment the Facebook founder entered the public eye in 2003 for creating a Harvard student hot-or-not rating site, he's been apologizing. So we collected this abbreviated history of his public mea culpas.
See also:
Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook.
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:09AM (3 children)
Facebook wrote a JavaScript engine? I thought they just moved away from JavaScript and toward native mobile apps.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:27AM (2 children)
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(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:59AM (1 child)
What secret sauce do they have that outperforms the JavaScript engines from Google/Mozilla/Apple?
I'm not seeing anything like a Facebook JavaScript compiler from a quick web search - what's it called?
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday April 13 2018, @07:37AM
Different optimisations for different use cases. Their code all uses one (apparently, very flexible but pretty terrible for performance) framework and so is all written in a specific style. Most JavaScript engines have to deal with code from a variety of different sources and care about geomean performance across a large range of benchmarks. Facebook's has to deal with code from a single source and cares about performance for that one codebase. This lets it do a bunch of things that aren't worth the effort for anyone else, because most code doesn't do the stupid things if they care about performance (see previous point about Facebook hiring cheap developers), and it can skip things that other VMs do that optimise cases that are common in general but not in their codebase.
I don't think they distribute it. One of my students worked on it before he came to do an MPhil.
sudo mod me up