Vyacheslav Egorov

Tools that work with Dart programs may accept hints to guide their behavior as pragma annotations on declarations. Each tool decides which hints it accepts, what they mean, and whether and how they apply to sub-parts of the annotated entity.

Dart VM in a nutshell

Benchmarks are not just about numbers—they are experiments that need interpretation. This post dissects a Dart vs JavaScript microbenchmark, illustrating why cool animations often mask the real value: insightful analysis. Numbers without context are just as meaningful as numerology

The Dart VM has a generational garbage collector with two generations. The new generation is collected by a parallel, stop-the-world semispace scavenger. The old generation is collected by concurrent-mark-concurrent-sweep or by concurrent-mark-parallel-compact.