For a more comprehensive reference on v8 internals, there is http://wingolog.org/tags/v8 http://wingolog.org/tags/v8, which has been around for a long time. It

For a more comprehensive reference on v8 internals, there is http://wingolog.org/tags/v8 http://wingolog.org/tags/v8, which has been around for a long time. It is even directly referenced from https://developers.google.com/v8/under_the_hood https://developers.google.com/v8/under_the_hood. I don't think there's anything in this post that wasn't already explained in this reference, except the fact that now there's Ignition and TurboFan, but that doesn't fundamentally change anything.