The V8 engine [0] compiles Javascript to assembly. Maybe it uses some other intermediate representation internally, maybe not. Why would you want to use bytecod

The V8 engine [0] compiles Javascript to assembly. Maybe it uses some other intermediate representation internally, maybe not. Why would you want to use bytecode for some random VM as internal representation? You can run Javascript anywhere [1], why would you want to compile it to some portable bytecode? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine) [1] Well, there are restrictions, just like there are for Java Bytecode.