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… ...

Emscripten C/C++-to-JavaScript project uses a back-end derived from LLVM for greater speed and a more dedicated compiler. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Higgs, an experimental JavaScript engine written in D, uses novel approaches to speed up JavaScript -- and could inspire similar projects An experimental new JavaScript compiler could provide ...

As with CoffeeScript, the output of the TypeScript compiler is idiomatic JavaScript. Constructs such as classes and inheritance are translated into JavaScript prototype chains in a manner that ...

If a JavaScript function is called more than six times, or loops more than 100 times, it gets fed into the next stage: a basic JIT compiler that produces executable code.