[HN Gopher] Super fast super property access
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Super fast super property access
Author : theBashShell
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-02-18 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (v8.dev)
| ecmascript wrote:
| Nice! Good job people working on V8!
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| harikb wrote:
| We have to give credit to Google for funding amazing performance
| work with Chromium/v8 as well as things like project zero.
|
| v8 Sandboxes, isolates - powers many edge worker models like
| those at Cloudflare, Fastly, and even entire node.js ecosystem
|
| Project zero - see recent posts of securing non-google software,
| including past reports about iPhone bugs.
|
| I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.
| lrossi wrote:
| We're talking about corporations of the size of small cities.
| There are going to be some amazing people in there, but some
| that you don't like as well. Both groups will stand out. So
| it's normal to hear apparently conflicting news about the org
| as a whole.
| infogulch wrote:
| > I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.
|
| It's not incongruous to belive both: 1. Google is doing
| important and valuable work, 2. Google is doing other things
| that are bad and they should stop.
|
| The whole idea that you can simply label some entity (human,
| company, anything) as "purely good" or "purely evil" is wrong
| and dangerous. You must _qualify_ the scope of good and bad,
| and _discriminate_ between which behaviors fall into each
| category. This is the major failure in the idea of cancel
| culture.
| user982 wrote:
| _> I just can 't understand the hate they get in other fronts._
|
| Other fronts are other fronts than the good works you listed.
| simion314 wrote:
| >I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.
|
| One recent Google achievement that it is not talked about that
| much, Google Maps, Google offered it for free, killed all the
| other companies that offered similar services for money and now
| Google maps is also paid. Some people don't like when giants
| use their profits from a market to offer free stuff in other
| markets and kill good paid or free products.
| harikb wrote:
| Freemium models as well as services being in free to get
| market share is also a model other companies have also done
| in the past. Granted this is something that should be
| slightly regulated. Companies must be forced to give N months
| notice for pricing changes, particularly those that can also
| be classified as utilities.
|
| About the actual method of pricing though, one needs to
| compare to the likes of Oracle - where they charge based on
| CPU cores that you are using (where it is entirely based on
| how much can they extract out of a company). Or let us take
| the case of your favorite TV/Phone company wanting more $$
| for an extra extension in your house. In those days, I would
| have never imaged that Netflix or Youtube additional
| "profiles" would be free.
| magicalist wrote:
| > _Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies
| that offered similar services for money and now Google maps
| is also paid_
|
| There weren't really similar services when it launched and
| there were far more mapping services/APIs both before and
| after the rate hike, so...
|
| The real problem is people based businesses on the rates
| offered and then they were drastically increased. The maps
| market is doing fine.
| tux3 wrote:
| I'm super confused by your comment! I don't believe that good
| contributions in one area absolves someone's bad behavior in
| other fronts.
|
| You're not supposed to buy goodwill.
| nine_k wrote:
| A company the size of Google should not be seen as a single
| homogeneous entity.
|
| Some departments of it do wonderful, stellar work and give it
| away as open source. Other parts do so-so work. Yet other parts
| do something which is seen by many as nefarious. You can often
| see the whole spectrum represented in one major product, such
| as Chrome or Android.
|
| This is why seeing entire Google (or FB, or MS, or even Oracle)
| as uniformly "good" or "evil" is a dangerous simplification.
| OTOH knowing their corporate policies from prior experience,
| one can presume how "good" or "evil" an outcome is more
| _probable_ in some new, unknown case. Known cases, such as V8,
| can completely contradict the common perception.
| topspin wrote:
| > I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.
|
| It's easy to understand. Great technical work and products
| don't bestow sainthood.
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