V8 is complicated. Things change way too fast and it’s really hard to keep track of what’s the fastest way of doing every specific action. But not anymore. Join me, a V8 contributor, on a journey through the compilation pipeline of V8 and understand how it all works under the hood. We’ll take the example of a popular JavaScript builtin method and find that what does and does not trigger de-optimization. By the end of the talk, you will have a fairly decent idea of how builtins are written inside …