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Subject: Re: [nodejs] Threading, and Dogmatisms.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote:
> On the other hand it didn't take too long for the V8 guys to fix exactly that in the isolates branch...

That's actually a good example of the cost of threading support: all
benchmarks dropped by 2 to 8% on the day isolates support got merged
into V8 HEAD.