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> Memory consumption only changed slightly, with a median of 1.7% decrease of V8’s heap size for loading a representative set of websites.

What makes you believe is should be anything significant? After all the JIT-compiled code cannot be that large.




JIT code for JS is /huge/ at the lower optimization levels, dramatically larger than an interpreter's byte code by something in the order of 10x - many megs of code are generated by relatively small amounts of JS code.




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