I have written a single javascript program in my life, and it was an emulator for an 8080-based machine. I used https://bluishcoder.co.nz/js8080/ for that part of the emulator, though I had to make some changes to it.
I found the emulator ran 4x faster on firefox than on chrome. The culprit was the main dispatch loop, a 256-entry switch statement. Chrome used a slow fall-back path because there were too many cases. The fix was to have "if (opcode < 128) { switch for first 128 cases} else { switch for other 128 cases }". It made FF a little bit slower, but greatly sped up on Chrome.
I also tried generating 256 functions and then dispatch to the right sub based on an array of function pointers, but it wasn't any faster than the switch statement.
But that was five year ago, and I'm sure the landscape is different now.
I found the emulator ran 4x faster on firefox than on chrome. The culprit was the main dispatch loop, a 256-entry switch statement. Chrome used a slow fall-back path because there were too many cases. The fix was to have "if (opcode < 128) { switch for first 128 cases} else { switch for other 128 cases }". It made FF a little bit slower, but greatly sped up on Chrome.
I also tried generating 256 functions and then dispatch to the right sub based on an array of function pointers, but it wasn't any faster than the switch statement.
But that was five year ago, and I'm sure the landscape is different now.