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Re:Ten years of V8 by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:37PM (#17963136)
>Smalltalk VM (which is the ancestor of V8)

In that both utilize JIT compilation or in other ways too?

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Re:Ten years of V8 by pawelmurias on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:25PM (#17963516)
It has some code from strongtalk. V8 has (some) developer who worked on smalltalk vms
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Re:Ten years of V8 by pjmlp on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:48AM (#17966331)
Lars Bak
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Re:Ten years of V8 by Leszek on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:53PM (#17963265)
In that V8 makes heavy use of inline caches
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