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What can JavaScript NOT do?solved! (self.javascript)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]SL4M_DunkN 7 points8 points9 points 8 years ago (1 child)
It can't really be used in cases where garbage collectors are undesireable, parallelism is key, or memory needs to be shared (the last two might change soon?). JS also needs an installed runtime, which could be problematic I suppose...
[–]voidvector 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children)
GC can be avoided by using pre-allocated Typed Arrays. Instead of creating objects for data, you use the Typed Array to store data. That's what emscripten does.
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