On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]>wrote:

> I don't understand the question. V8 is fast precisely because of the
> underlying design choice to generate machine code. It's a fast VM *because*
> it's aggressively targeting the speed benefits of native code.
>

That's clear - i'm just curious whether the extra effort was, in the devs'
opinions, worth it, or whether they would have gone with a more traditional
approach if they could do it over.

modern JS engines, though, cannot be achieved without compiling to native
> code one way or another.
>

That answers the question. :)

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