This is a straw man argument. You are reducing the claims made by both sides here into a function that adds primitives REALLY?
You know full well that this is complete BS. Nothing meaningful(including the original blog post) can be done in JS and have the code emitted even come close to the compiled code of the C implementation of the same function. Sure a few bytes here and there MAY be the same and therefore execute in a similar amount of time (as long as a GC Cycle doesn't happen to run in the middle of it) - but it is ridiculous to even compare the two overall in this manner.
As for C not being the be-all and end-all of programming languages... Who ever made this claim? Personally - I don't even like using C. Are you trying to create a diversionary argument to make-up for the edge case you presented that MAY execute as fast as a C compiler output?
Please only reply with real challenges. Not edge cases.
You know full well that this is complete BS. Nothing meaningful(including the original blog post) can be done in JS and have the code emitted even come close to the compiled code of the C implementation of the same function. Sure a few bytes here and there MAY be the same and therefore execute in a similar amount of time (as long as a GC Cycle doesn't happen to run in the middle of it) - but it is ridiculous to even compare the two overall in this manner.
As for C not being the be-all and end-all of programming languages... Who ever made this claim? Personally - I don't even like using C. Are you trying to create a diversionary argument to make-up for the edge case you presented that MAY execute as fast as a C compiler output?
Please only reply with real challenges. Not edge cases.