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

  • 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.

    Typically, you don't run a general code engine on an ASIC. They're more for a specific application, where it can do the job it was hard designed for, which is why they're so fast and efficient

  • Javascript is popular enough that normal CPUs are becoming its ASICs

    https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/h/A64-Floati...