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How the JavaScript Engine is executed is through the call stack and the heap.
Compilation vs Interpretation
Compilation
An entire code is converted into machine code and later executed via a binary file.
Interpretation
- The interpreter runs through the source code and instead only executed all at the same time. It is only run before it was executed.
- Interpreted languages are often slower.
- Modern JavaScript engine uses a mix of both compilation and interpreted approaches known as just in time compilation. It is compiled beforehand into machine code and executed just on time.
JavaScript Engine
Step One: Parsing is also known as ‘reading the code’
Step Two: Compilation via the AST
- AST: Abstract Syntax Tree.
- It has nothing to do with DOM.
Step Three: Execution
This step happens in the call stack.
Step Four: Optimization
The Engine optimizes the execution continuously.
What is a JavaScript Runtime?
- We can imagine a JavaScript runtime as a huge box which includes all the important stuff we need to run the code.
- In order to work properly, WEB API’s offer greater functionalities but are not part of the JavaScript Runtime.
- A typical JavaScript Runtime also includes a
callback queue. This functions allows us or attach event handlers to DOM elements and these are also calledcallback functions.