title: Use cases where Javascript may be faster than compiled C code?
body: <p>John Walker recently published an <a href="http://fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2017-10/001715.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">update to his floating point benchmark</a>, showing Javascript running faster than C code. He attributes this to "the poor performance of the new GCC trigonometric function libraries". Are there any other cases where Javascript may perform better than compiled C code? I am in particular thinking of areas applicable to machine learning and AI.</p>