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The JavaScriptCore virtual machine (invited talk)

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JavaScriptCore (JSC) is an open-source high-performance implementation of JavaScript. JSC is used in the WebKit open source browser engine as well as a system framework on macOS and iOS. This talk will give a broad high-level overview of JSC’s performance-oriented architecture, including specific details about the object model, garbage collector, optimizing compilers, type inference, and deoptimization.

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      cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
      ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 52, Issue 11
      DLS '17
      November 2017
      86 pages
      ISSN:0362-1340
      EISSN:1558-1160
      DOI:10.1145/3170472
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        DLS 2017: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on on Dynamic Languages
        October 2017
        86 pages
        ISBN:9781450355261
        DOI:10.1145/3133841

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