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It's a fairly simple optimization - it's still JavaScript, just compressed and somewhat pre-parsed. The author of Smalltalk/X proposed this for Smalltalk at on
by stcredzero 9y ago
It's a fairly simple optimization - it's still JavaScript, just compressed and somewhat pre-parsed.
The author of Smalltalk/X proposed this for Smalltalk at one of the Camp Smalltalk meetups about 17 years ago. Doing this for Javascript would also facilitate the running of other languages which use Javascript as a compiler target, providing 1st class debugging support for other languages as a side effect.
- Yoric 9y agoDo you have a link? I'd be interested in reading how they proposed to do so.
- stcredzero 9y agoNo link. We were all stuffed into a La Quinta Inn in San Diego, running ethernet between the balconies. There was just a bunch of us crowded into a motel room, and he just started talking about it.