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0 pointsspacenick887y ago0 comments

The interpreter has always been part of the codebase since it is used during startup and while the code is still being JITed

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munificent7y ago

Not always, actually. V8 came out in 2008 and didn't have an interpreter until 2016. For the first eight years, the non-optimization execution was also a JIT, just a simpler one.

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