On: Traditional JavaScript benchmarks

[gravypod]

I'm just wowed by this not already being part of V8. What else have they been doing?

I know that V8 has some amazing performance characteristics and if they aren't from doing things that C compilers have been doing for years, then what are these speed boosts coming from?

[sambe → gravypod]

It might help to read a bit more closely. A lot of the optimisations being discussed were already added years ago; the point is that they are not as useful in real-world usage as they are in benchmarks (or, in fact, disadvantageous).

JIT compiling a highly dynamic language is quite a different task than AOT compiling a statically typed language. Bit-twiddling tricks are unlikely to be the biggest concern. Try starting with the obvious like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation