The Browser Backstage: Juggling JavaScript

In India, we celebrate 15th September as Engineer's Day, the day being the birthday of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, who is more commonly known as Sir MV. From 1-15 September, Devopedia is celebrating Engineer's Day with a series of tech talks. All talks are free and open to public.

See https://bit.ly/engday23 for a list of all talks. Details of this talk are below.

Vivek Galatage, Engineering @ The Browser Company, Chromium Reviewer, WebKit Committer

The Browser Backstage is a series of topics that will provide a glimpse into the fascinating world of Browsers. The topic "Juggling JavaScript" covers the interesting engineering that goes into executing JavaScript in the Browser. This talk gives an overview of various stages of JS handling - parsing, AST, interpreter, Just-in-Time compilation, etc. Finally, we will go through a quick demo showing the impact of choosing certain hook points from the browser for effective execution of your JavaScript.