How JavaScript engines achieve great performance
I still think that <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;dynamic-languages-strike-back.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;dynamic-languages-st...</a> is one of the best overviews ever of how JavaScript managed to become as fast as traditional compiled languages despite being filled with features to make it slow.<p>What&#x27;s amazing is that that talk came out several months before V8, the first JavaScript engine that actually used the ideas in that talk.  But, of course, that talk was possible because V8 was already under development.