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0 pointspalata11mo ago0 comments

You are one of those people stuck in the 90s, then.

Take 5 min to read about JIT and AOT compilation.

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What point are you trying to make? V8 has a JIT compiler too, does that make JavaScript a compiled language?

palataOP11mo ago

If you run JavaScript with a JIT compiler, you can't say "it is slow because it is interpreted". And it is obviously wrong to say "V8 is slow because it is an interpreter", isn't it?

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0 pointspalata11mo ago0 comments

You are one of those people stuck in the 90s, then.

Take 5 min to read about JIT and AOT compilation.

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koakuma-chan11mo ago

What point are you trying to make? V8 has a JIT compiler too, does that make JavaScript a compiled language?

palataOP11mo ago

If you run JavaScript with a JIT compiler, you can't say "it is slow because it is interpreted". And it is obviously wrong to say "V8 is slow because it is an interpreter", isn't it?

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