Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. In other words, Node.js wastes no time or ...

These techniques and code samples will enable you to move constants from compile time to runtime efficiently. “Use constants in code!” Everybody tells you this, and they’re right.

The interpreter may be boosted by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which translates some of the byte code into native code instructions at runtime. JIT compilers sometimes introduce runtime startup ...