Lars Bak (author of V8) talks about this quite a bit in this video with Erik Meijer. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and

Lars Bak (author of V8) talks about this quite a bit in this video with Erik Meijer. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Lars-Bak-Inside-V8-A-Javascript-Virtual-Machine/ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-E... summary version - there's not a lot to be gained by doing that(at least from a Goog perspective).