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[AskHN] Anyone working on an ASIC for a JavaScript engine?

1 pointsby hargupabout 1 year ago
Javascript runs everywhere, and all the time. Curious if something is trying to build a JS engine in an ASIC (Application specific Integrated Circuit)?f<p>Might be pretty useful in large data centers.

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blharrabout 1 year ago
Not an expert, so a more nuanced view may help, but from my understanding, developing an ASIC even for a simple task is a lot of work. JavaScript is already optimized to run on a CPU. It has many different general roles as a language itself, and making an ASIC for JavaScript as a whole would basically be making a CPU itself.<p>Typically, you don&#x27;t run a general code engine on an ASIC. They&#x27;re more for a specific application, where it can do the job it was hard designed for, which is why they&#x27;re so fast and efficient
bhaneyabout 1 year ago
Javascript is popular enough that normal CPUs are becoming its ASICs<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.arm.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;dui0801&#x2F;h&#x2F;A64-Floating-point-Instructions&#x2F;FJCVTZS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.arm.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;dui0801&#x2F;h&#x2F;A64-Floati...</a>
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