Some of the rationale is in this blog post too <http://webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme/
>.
For example: “We also think we can get a lot more speedups out of the
JIT through techniques such as type specialization, better register
allocation and liveness analysis. [...] bytecode is a good
representation for making many of these kinds of transforms.”
-- Darin
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