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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by ex3ndr on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:19PM (#23511435)
If you will try to profile your app on V8 you will find that almost everything is in binary code, not interpreted.
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Re:Flow browser passes the Acid tests by kizer on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:00AM (#23517051)
In this sense it means not requiring a precompilation step. JITing is an implementation detail; also modern engines compile to a bytecode first during interpretation.
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