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At what point did deep dive come to mean high-level overview?
by singlow 6y ago
At what point did deep dive come to mean high-level overview?
- bialpio 6y agoCame here to say the same thing, the title is very misleading. The article even uses those words in the summary: "The goal was to clarify a bit on V8’s structural details (...)", "(...) But these are pretty much the core concepts. (...)". EDIT: added one more quote.
- jerrysievert 6y agoI kept reading the overview trying to find any place where it took even a shallow dive, but it never did. which is a shame, since there's a ton of interesting parts inside of v8.
- dang 6y agoOk, we've made the title resurface and be an overview above.
- cardiffspaceman 6y agoGranted, it's higher level than I could have comprehended or desired, but it's lower level than some overviews I can picture. I think there could be more refinement to the article. The GC does not get rid of "dead or old" objects. It gets rid of dead (unused) objects, regardless of age. The part on inline caching doesn't really explain what happens when the cached method is not the right one. These things could be edited without changing the level of detail very much.