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Just a nit on the JIT... JavaScript is almost always compiled, regardless of whether there is a JIT or not.

A typical JavaScript system first compiles the JS source code into bytecode. Then it starts executing (interpreting) the bytecode.

If there is a JIT, that is a second compiler. It monitors the execution of the bytecode to find hot spots where it compiles the bytecode into machine language.



yeah but I was just nitpicking on the "interpreted" statement above. What comes around goes around I guess.




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