x10 performance boost

[pinguluk]

Will this increase the performance by x10?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNlq-EVld70

[tuokri]

On another note, I propose TS types Doom shall be the benchmark for all future TS performance improvements.

[dimitropoulos]

@pinguluk yes, absolutely. even more, actually, because the thing that bottlenecks Doom is serializing a multi-megabyte-type to string, which is not something a normal typecheck run has to do at all and is exactly the kind of thing Go/Rust/whatever is often WAY WAY faster than JavaScript at.

sub-1-day Doom-first-frame is absolutely on the table

[dimitropoulos]

@tuokri there's a way in which this could happen.

on one hand, there are things (specifically, appending to an object with hundreds of thousands of keys) that this project does that are extremely extremely abnormal, and thus wouldn't make sense to benchmark because the results wouldn't be applicable to a normal project.

on the other hand, this engine is a general purpose tool that could be used (say, by writing a WebAssembly program) to sortof "randomize" the activity and create a very legit benchmark.

that's something that'd need someone (again, haha, NOT ME) to devote some time to, but it's genuinely a good idea, I think.