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Re:Ignition: V8 Interpreter by cbsmith on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:48PM (#10036820)
Kind of hilarious that we're worried about code size in browsers these days.
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Re:Ignition: V8 Interpreter by Klathmon on Monday August 10, 2015 @04:01PM (#10036910)
It's not disk size that we care about, it's memory size. Reducing the space that the "parsed" code takes up in memory will reduce the amount of memory used by the engine.
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Re:Ignition: V8 Interpreter by cbsmith on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:49PM (#10045144)
> It's not disk size that we care about, it's memory size.

Yeah, I get it. We have a lot of memory these days. Gigabytes. Not always enough for images and videos, but for code? for client-side browser code that is downloaded & run on the fly? Makes you wonder how we got there.

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