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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by chillfox on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:18PM (#41115375)
There are already projects that does JS-to-WASM by bundling a JS interpreter. So, it's likely to make the difference to those clearer.
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by canadahonk on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:18AM (#41117557)
Yep! Also as it is technically more of an engine/runtime (sometimes) than "just" a compiler, folks in the JS space are more familiar with engine as a term :)
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