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by ineiti 1972 days ago
Chrome seems to compile before it runs it. Only Firefox takes some lines before it runs it as fast as Chrome. Now I wonder why it takes so long to do the JIT? I always thought that JIT compiles with every execution...
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As I understand it there's a "baseline" compilation, then after n calls it's specialized according to the types/values seen.