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Ignition: How V8's Interpreter Dispatches Bytecode

Oct 22, 2026 15 min read Jay Hubbert

V8’s Ignition interpreter is a register machine whose registers live in the stack frame, dispatched through a 768-entry table of generated machine-code handlers.

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