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Re:Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast by ken on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @12:53AM (#17650626)
Not surprising. HP did this with PA-RISC binaries, back in the 1990's: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html

They found that most programs ran slightly faster in the JIT. I'm still not sure why this technique didn't catch on.

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