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Re:Assembling WebAssembly by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:51PM (#14501226)
Is “interpreting” necessarily faster?

Consider also this is perhaps a false distinction. V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC. And that code is JITed doesn't mean the entire module is.

Re:Assembling WebAssembly by saamyjoon on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:59PM (#14501281)
V8 used to do this. Now they have a JS interpreter called Ignition.
Re:Assembling WebAssembly by bzbarsky on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:34AM (#14507257)
> V8 always produces machine code when running JS IIRC.

They used to. They stopped doing that because it made initial load too slow...