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Is “interpreting” necessarily faster? Consider also this is perhaps a false distinction. V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC. And that code is

Is “interpreting” necessarily faster? Consider also this is perhaps a false distinction. V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC. And that code is JITed doesn't mean the entire module is.

saamyjoon 9y ago
V8 used to do this. Now they have a JS interpreter called Ignition.
bzbarsky 9y ago
> V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC. They used to. They stopped doing that because it made initial load too slow...