Optimizing the Unoptimizable: A Whirlwind Tour of JavaScript
Leszek Swirski · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2018
A whirlwind tour through the history and state-of-the-art of JavaScript execution and optimization, with a focus on the V8 engine used by Chrome and Node.js, and how a 10-day prototype became one of the most important programming languages in the world.