The interpreter may be boosted by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which translates some of the byte code into native code instructions at runtime. JIT compilers sometimes introduce runtime startup ...

He figures it’s possible to rewrite the IDE as HTML5, but since that’s a pretty large mountain to climb, he started by building a browser-based AVR compiler. It’s an interesting concept ...

At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.