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Interesting to see them moving away from AST-to-ASM and building an IR, which looks to be a CFG.

When V8 was first released, one of the selling points was that it would directly translate JS, which is why it was fast and why it couldn't be retargeted.

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> Interesting to see them moving away from AST-to-ASM and building an IR, which looks to be a CFG.

V8 actually has been using a compiler with a proper IR since 2010 when Crankshaft[1] was released.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html

Oh my, I'm quite behind. I feel embarrassed now :)

It's actually a bit more relaxed than a CFG, since code is not really organized into "basic blocks" but floats around as nodes in a graph. We affectionately refer to it as a "soup of nodes".

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