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Conceptually, Prepack would go together well with heap snapshots, as Prepack figures out what is the concrete heap, and what are residual computations. If we tweak Prepack to compl…

It's not yet ready for production, so there are some bugs and cases where we should reject a program but don't do that yet. Having said that, it's quite safe, but won't be undetect…

Currently, it's really about the initialization phase of the code.

To really see the benefits, you need to use it an environment where the parsing overhead gets cached. In terms of pure execution time, we see improvements of up to 10x for the init…

Prepack is quite complementary to traditional compilers. It's strength is that it comes with full knowledge of the JavaScript built-ins, and it uses that to pre-evaluate the code a…

Hi, I am Nikolai Tillmann, a developer on the Prepack project. I am happy to answer any questions!