Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 8 Feb 98

Foil 9 Performance Issues

From Overview of Basic JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
Typically, up to 106 C instructions may be executed in a few milliseconds
A Java interpeter is roughly 50 times slower than C
Java "Just-In-Time" compiler is roughly 2–8 times slower than C
Perl is 500 times slower than C
JavaScript is 5000 times slower than C

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