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2nd September 2008 - Link Blog

V8 Design Elements. High level design details of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, including how it uses “hidden classes” to optimise object property lookups and a bit of information on the machine code generation and garbage collection.

Posted 2nd September 2008 at 11:58 pm

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