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. :) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
