Cloudflare, Mozilla and Facebook develop BinaryAST to speed up JavaScript loading
Engineers from Cloudflare, Mozilla, Facebook and Bloomberg have proposed a new BinaryAST format to speed up the delivery and processing of JavaScript code when opening sites in a browser. BinaryAST takes the parsing phase to the server side and supplies an already formed Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). Upon receiving BinaryAST, the browser can immediately go to the compilation stage, bypassing the parsing of the JavaScript source code. […]