London TypeScript Community Meetup (10/02/24): Optimizing JavaScript Engine Performance

On Wednesday, October 2, 2024, Bloomberg hosted our first TypeScript Community Meetup at the company's London Office.

For the evening's second talk, Oliver Medhurst, a TC39 Invited Expert and the creator of Porffor – an experimental Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) JavaScript engine that can compile TypeScript to Wasm and native code -- discussed "Optimizing JavaScript Engine Performance." Oliver demonstrated how native TypeScript support in JavaScript engines can present interesting optimization opportunities. Type annotations from TypeScript can act as hints to the AOT compiler to allow optimizations that reduce output size, improve performance, and more!

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