Introduction Ages ago I wrote a blog post here called first dip in the kernel pool, this year we're going to swim in a sea of nodes! The current trend is to attack JavaScript engines and more specifically, optimizing JIT compilers such as V8's TurboFan, SpiderMonkey's IonMonkey, JavaScriptCore's Data Flow Graph (DFG) & Faster Than Light (FTL) or Chakra's Simple JIT & FullJIT. In this article we're