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		koakuma-chan 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Migrating away from Rust What point are you trying to make? V8 has a JIT compiler too, does that make JavaScript a compiled language?

palata 7 months ago [–]

If you run JavaScript with a JIT compiler, you can't say "it is slow because it is interpreted". And it is obviously wrong to say "V8 is slow because it is an interpreter", isn't it?

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