JavaScript in JavaScript: Inception (JSConf EU 2014)

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By Adrian Perez de Castro. Full slides at http://perezdecastro.org/jsinception. Modern JavaScript engines are able to generate very good machine code. Wouldn’t it be a waste to write in C those parts of the language that can be expressed in JavaScript itself? I will talk about how this is works in different virtual machines, and how this makes it a breeze to modify V8 in particular.

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