For one, compilation is much quicker — “often four times faster or more,” they claim — and requires far less memory. It also “avoids unpredictable pathological compiler slowdowns that th ...

Many programming languages require a compiler to compile them to machine-readable code, but Web browsers can read JavaScript with no compilation required. However ...

While JavaScript might not be the ideal language to write a production compiler, you might enjoy the “Create Your Own Compiler” tutorial that does an annotated walkthrough of “The Super Tiny ...

“but also for making future JavaScript compiler research much easier. It’s now possible to write an optimization algorithm, plug it into the pipeline, and see what it does.” Firefox 18 is ...