To further expatiate, the reason behind using JavaScript source itself as the storage is made clear on what little documentation exists for V8. http://code.google.com/apis/v8/design.html
Essentially the code is compiled to machine code as it's run, upon demand, based on system conditions and varying factors and the actual code execution itself. Time isn't spent doing optimizations and compilation on code until its shown to be hot code, often accessed, and in need of optimization. This is part of how V8 is fast, and why JavaScript is largely stored as raw JS sourcecode most of the time even during execution. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
