As I recall, the only major advantage of QuickJS is that it can run on machines where v8 couldn't dream of fitting. Data sizes almost always exceed the size of

As I recall, the only major advantage of QuickJS is that it can run on machines where v8 couldn't dream of fitting. Data sizes almost always exceed the size of the code itself. I wouldn't consider it surprising that the IR would fade away into the noise. V8 can also make tradeoffs that QuickJS probably cannot. For example, v8 internally represents strings as 1-byte latin-1 characters rather than 2-byte UCS-2. This halves memory consumption, but adds a lot of code to the implementation that a microcontroller running QuickJS may not have room for.