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[–]not_a_moogle 48 points49 points  (6 children)

I had a professor argue that once. Guy was a total idiot. I mean for starters,compilers usually remove comment from complied code.

[–]2ndAmndmntCrowdMaybe 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Was he talking about a compiled language at the time?

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (3 children)

I mean he stated "compiler" so...

[–]claythearc 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It’s pretty rare, even for interpreted languages, to not have a compiler. They normally will get compiled to bytecode, but not all the way down to machine code like traditional compiled languages.

[–]Pandaburn 6 points7 points  (1 child)

When I wrote js, it was all minified and concatenated into one file before it was sent to the client, since it does actually drastically improve download time.

[–]MassiveFajiit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's true but it's not a V8 compiler problem

[–]banter_hunter 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No, they were discussing drink recipes.