The article was written as a simplification as the target audience were SEO Professionals who may or may not have a development background. I'm really surprised in the interest so far, I didn't expect this to get outside of it's intended audience.
The "inaccuracies" are largely simplifications, rather than deliberate inaccuracies, but please do fact check it; I appreciate the feedback. It's especially valuable to hear from developers.
I'm not at all dismissing Google's efforts if you read the article more deeply. I just place more emphasis on their effort to make Chrome threaded, as I believe that functionality is absolutely necessary to deploy a browser as a spider.
It also an amazing piece of engineering, and has loads of benefits. As for V8's speed, I couldn't find any recent benchmarks, so I leaned on the anecdotal evidence. As you said, it really depends on the benchmark.
Mentioning the programming language was more about hinting at Google's proficiency in the space; C++ is one of their core development languages.
Anywho, thanks again for the feedback. If nothing else, I hope you found it interesting!
The article was written as a simplification as the target audience were SEO Professionals who may or may not have a development background. I'm really surprised in the interest so far, I didn't expect this to get outside of it's intended audience.
The "inaccuracies" are largely simplifications, rather than deliberate inaccuracies, but please do fact check it; I appreciate the feedback. It's especially valuable to hear from developers.
I'm not at all dismissing Google's efforts if you read the article more deeply. I just place more emphasis on their effort to make Chrome threaded, as I believe that functionality is absolutely necessary to deploy a browser as a spider.
It also an amazing piece of engineering, and has loads of benefits. As for V8's speed, I couldn't find any recent benchmarks, so I leaned on the anecdotal evidence. As you said, it really depends on the benchmark.
Mentioning the programming language was more about hinting at Google's proficiency in the space; C++ is one of their core development languages.
Anywho, thanks again for the feedback. If nothing else, I hope you found it interesting!