Hi, some corrections :) JavaScript is aa intepreted 100%. do you compile it before it getting runs?
Yes it does compiling (optimisation on the v8) but that does not imply JavaScript as a compiled language. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Dan Milon <danmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Offtopic: > > On 12/21/2012 01:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > JavaScript is interpreted, not compiled. > > That's not true. > > The language by itself does not require the VM to either interpret or > compile the code. > > V8 in fact does compile the code into an intermediate format called > Hydrogen. (not assembly). It will even update this intermediate code > on the fly, so you cant really categorize it as interpreted. > > danmilon. > > -- > 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 > -- Arunoda Susiripala @arunoda <http://twitter.com/arunoda> <http://gplus.to/arunoda>https://github.com/arunoda http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunoda -- 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
