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		prodigal_erik on May 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trying out this Go thing at Disqus Does V8 specify a virtual machine and instruction set which you could make a real processor for? I thought it went straight from Javascript to either x86 or ARM.

calinet6 on May 23, 2013 [–]

Correct, V8 compiles Javascript directly to machine code in a JIT fashion; there is no intermediate instruction set or bytecode. https://developers.google.com/v8/design?hl=es-ES#mach_code

So in that sense, yeah, V8 is not really a VM but just a JIT compiler/interpreter.

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