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		nponeccop on Jan 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deca - a systems language based on modern PL princ... I mean high-performance implementations. Techniques to (statically) compile prototypes into efficient code were developed, but they are largely irrelevant to Javascript. High-performance modern implementations of JS rely on tracing JIT.

cyrus_ on Jan 12, 2012 [–]

Pretty sure polymorphic inline caches are standard fare in both Javascript and other VMs (JVM, CLR, etc.). What other techniques are you referring to?

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