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SpiderMonkey was around way before v8, and once it begat TraceMonkey, it had JIT. Bloomberg used this pervasively on their billion-dollar product for years bef
by jzwinck 11y ago
SpiderMonkey was around way before v8, and once it begat TraceMonkey, it had JIT. Bloomberg used this pervasively on their billion-dollar product for years before v8 was a thing--you can read that from one horse's mouth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984617
- smegel 11y agoThat's quite interesting. I only mentioned v8 for the fairly obvious reason that it formed the core of the first really popular server side JS implementation, which I don't really need to name.