How the performance characteristics of v8’s Turbofan will affect the way we optimize Reviewers: Franziska Hinkelmann and Benedikt Meurer from the V8 team. **Update: Node.js 8.3.0 has shipped V8 6.0 with Turbofan. Since its inception Node.js has depended on the V8 JavaScript engine to provide code execution in the language we all know and love. The V8 JavaScript engine is a JavaScript VM that was w