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Overhead of deoptimization checks in the V8 JavaScript engine

Southern et al., 2016

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7356358574400489697
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Southern G
Renau J
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2016 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC)

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Just-in-time compilation for dynamic languages uses type speculation to generate optimized code for frequently executed code sections. However, even the high-performance code requires checks to ensure that assumptions made during code generation are not violated. If …
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