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by spacenick88 2662 days ago
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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munificent 2662 days 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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