Obviously, this isn't the traditional way of looking at compilation, but it does make sense.<p>I guess the problem being described, somewhat obtusely, is that massive amounts of dependencies (in Facebook's case million of lines of code) are loaded in order to execute a relatively small page.<p>I'll admit that to a CS person who understand compilers, their description makes it look like they don know what they're talking about. But if you explained Facebook's interpretation/compilation problems to a non-techy, it would probably come out sounding similar.<p>(Note comment reuse: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aodzg/one_facebook_employee_is_attempting_to_rewrite/c0ilx2j" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aodzg/one_faceb...</a>)