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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by materielle on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:18PM (#40568260)
Andreas isn’t targeting V8’s JIT performance. The goal is to be roughly in line with WebKit’s performance with the JIT turned off.

The theory is that JS JIT compilers don’t actually improve real world performance on the majority of websites. This was apparently per the advice of the authors of Chrome’s and Safari’s JITs.

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