Javascript bytecode

[Araq]

On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 10:30:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 2:13 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
>> What Walter is wrong about is that bytecode is entirely 
>> pointless.
>
> I'll bite. What is its advantage over source code?

Interpreting the AST directly: Requires recursion.
Interpreting a (stack based) bytecode: Does not require recursion.

That's what an AST to bytecode tranformation does; it eliminates 
the recursion. And that is far from being useless.