Javascript bytecode

[Max Samukha]

On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 17:08:28 UTC, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> On 2012-00-21 12:12, Max Samukha <maxsamukha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> It is not about bytecode vs source code. It is about a common 
>> platform-independent  intermediate representation for multiple 
>> languages. JS is such a representation in the browsers and it 
>> is widely used. It it entirely pointless? I am not convinced 
>> it is.
>
> But Walter has said that for exactly this purpose, bytecode is 
> useful.

Really? He sounded like the whole world should repent for using 
IRs. Maybe I misunderstood.

> What he's said is that in the case proposed (using bytecode 
> instead of
> source code for CTFE), bytecode offers absolutely no advantage 
> over
> source.
>
> Now can we move on? It's been said so many times now, and we 
> all know
> Walter is not a pushover. If nobody can present irrefutable, 
> solid,
> peer-reviewed, and definite proof that bytecode has significant
> advantages over source code for the purpose of CTFE, such an
> implementation will never be done, and the world will be better 
> off
> for it.

I am not arguing that.