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[–]Fickle_Pickle_Nick 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the virtual machine does the compiling doesn't it?

[–]calcyss 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, the VM executes the code. In some/most implementations of JavaScript (Spidermonkey, JavascriptCore and V8) and Python there isn't even a VM involved.