Are frozen Objects faster ?

[Mark S. Miller]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Herby Vojčík <herby at mailbox.sk> wrote:

>
>
> Kevin Gadd wrote:
>
>> Frozen and sealed objects are both dramatically slower in most JS
>> engines I've tested. In the ones where they're not dramatically slower
>> they are never faster.
>>
>> The last time I asked on the mozilla and v8 bug trackers I was
>> informed that there is no plan to optimize for these features and that
>> the design of the respective JS engines would make such optimizations
>> difficult anyway.
>>
>> (I find this extremely unfortunate.)
>>
>
> I, on the other hand, find it fortunate. Otherwise, some people would
> prematurely freeze objects to gain speed. It would be same
> <del>disaster</del> akwardness as v8 did with removing `delete` in favour
> of `= null`.
>

What are you referring to? What 'delete' was removed?




>
> Herby
>
>  -kg
>>
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