JavaScript in JavaScript: Inception (JSConf EU 2014)
Channel: Igalia
Date: 2014-12-03

By Adrian Perez de Castro.

Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/igalia/javascript-in-javascript-inception-jsconf-eu-2014

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.