Modern browsers have code execution environments that very much push the state o...

tester756 · on April 15, 2023

>Modern browsers have code execution environments that very much push the state of the art in compilation

By which metric?

jimbokun · on April 15, 2023

Well, I’m not a practitioner in that space, and maybe my perception is out of date.

But didn’t the semantics of JavaScript lead to some pretty novel ways of just-in-time compiling code at runtime? When the V8 engine was introduced, for example.