>         You can use a simple 1-pass compilation (without even register
>         allocation) that takes just a few ms for any reasonable amount
>         of code.
> 
>     Such a compiler is fast, but it produces verbose code.
>
> David is exactly right.  I think v8 does not yet have to face this
> problem because it is compiling javascript programs in web pages where
> the largest programs are a few hundred k bytes of source (e.g. the
> lively kernel at around 300k).

Yes, that's what I meant too.  They can afford a fast nonoptimizing
compiler, at least now.

Paolo