@mattpocockuk: Anyone who says engineering skills don't matter, show them this
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A developer shares a personal journey of 8 months of research with no results, nearly quitting twice, before discovering a path to a universal 2x performance improvement for all modern JavaScript parsers, which took another 4 months to build.
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Anyone who says engineering skills don’t matter, show them this
Shanon Jackson (@Shanshrew): 1 Year of Research coming to an end. 8 Months seeing no results, Almost quitting twice. November/December of last year finally seeing a very narrow path to a universal 2x perf improvement on every modern JS parser which would take me another 4 months to build.
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