V8 Meets the Enemy
summary
An exploration of how JavaScript is compiled and executed by the V8 engine (used by Node.js and most modern browsers), focusing on how high-level code is transformed into machine code and how that affects application performance. The talk explains common inefficiencies (seen as costly bugs), gives guidelines to write code that compiles to more efficient native code, and demonstrates a couple of tools to identify and fix these performance problems.
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