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by ShabbyDoo
6032 days ago
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Does V8 compile to a bytecode similar to Java? I know that it does JIT compilation to native code and then caches it for future use. If it happens to have a bytecode representation, we could read the Google tealeaves and conclude that Google sees compiled JavaScript as an ugly steppingstone toward a binary representation of client-side code. |
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AFAIK, not any remotely standardized bytecode, no. Of course, there are some data structures in between the strings of characters and the native code, but I don't think there's any talk of guaranteeing anything that would warrant calling them "byte code".
Aside: Lars Bak is the lead developer on V8, and was the lead on HotSpot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)