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Personally, I feel that the biggest slap in the face to developers in the last decade is that V8 uses native code instead of byte code. In 10-20 years I hope we
by rubiquity 13y ago
Personally, I feel that the biggest slap in the face to developers in the last decade is that V8 uses native code instead of byte code. In 10-20 years I hope we look back on Google's decision to do that and hate them for it.
- jlebrech 13y agoit compiles to an ast first
- stcredzero 13y agoYears ago at Camp Smalltalk, Smalltalk VM implementers talked about compiling everything to ASTs instead of bytecode.
- espadrine 13y agoI do understand why nobody would want to target Hydrogen directly, but here's a Hydrogen IR inspector tool: http://mrale.ph/irhydra/1/#ir http://mrale.ph/irhydra/1/#ir
- CmonDev 13y ago"In 10-20 years" - let's hope ES6 is released before that.
- herokusaki 13y agoHonest question: why is it a slap in the face to developers?
- rubiquity 13y agoBecause we could then have a virtual machine that we could send bytecode to, instead of having all of these languages that compile to JavaScript, which eventually gets compiled to native code by V8.