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Andy Wingo's exploration of V8's Lithium interpreter [1] describes the reasoning behind the Ruby offline assembly generator.

Actually, if you're reading the original linked article, you should also be reading Andy's series on V8.

The article you are linking to is about LLInt --- JavaScriptCore's interpreter.

V8 does not have an interpreter. Lithium is V8's (low level) intermediate representation.

Thanks for that clarification--I find myself confusing V8 for JSC every now and then.