Some quick thoughts on https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/884892244817346560. It's not ignorant at all to ask how browser vendors approach performance. On the V8 side we've discussed bytecode precompilation challenges a few times this year. Here's my recollection of where we stand on the idea:
JavaScript engines like V8 have to work on multiple architectures. Every version of V8 is different. The architectures we target are different. A precompiled bytecode solution would require a system (e.g the server or a CDN) to generate bytecode builds for every target architecture, every version of V8 supported and every version of the JavaScript libraries or bundles bytecode is being generated for. This is because we would need to make sure every user accessing a page using that bytecode can still get the final JS successfully executed.
Consider that if a cross-browser solution to this problem was desired, the above would need to be applied to JavaScriptCore, SpiderMonkey and Chakra as well. It would need to ca
