If the function is then called more than 66 times, or loops more than 1,000 times, it gets fed into the third stage, a JIT compiler that actually spends a relatively long time to optimize the code.

“We’re excited about this not just for performance and maintainability,” Anderson wrote. “but also for making future JavaScript compiler research much easier.

Google’s continued work to speed up Chrome sees its new Maglev just-in-time compiler boost browser performance across various benchmarks. Maglev is Chrome’s new mid-tier compiler that “can ...

The lead of Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Research Johnathan Norman has detailed an experiment in Edge that disabled the JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compiler to enable some extra security ...

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