Javascript JIT in web browsers

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Aug 19 21:54:48 UTC 2010


Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> How about a very well maintained open source piece of software, such
> as Firefox, WebKit and WebKit2 (http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2),
> as a source of that generated native code at runtime? This would
> immensely help verifying the emitter of such a code and take the
> appropriate action, if needed.

Sorry, but you misunderstood me (again :-( )! The source of the native code 
is the JavaScript. Those pieces of software you list (or rather, the JITs 
they include) are only the mechanism which translates it to native code.

        Kevin Kofler



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