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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by eridius on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:29PM (#20246057)
If you're going to precompile your JS, why would you want to emit this bytecode instead of just going to WASM?
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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by pier25 on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:42PM (#20246167)
Because wasm still doesn't support many features that JS does. For example accessing the DOM.
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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by firethief on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:58PM (#20246944)
Bytecode is a broad category. The design of a bytecode suitable for interpreting JS has little in common with a bytecode for AOT compilation of static languages without tracing GC, other than that they're both made of bytes.
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