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Re: Loop optimisation.

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
 
> <https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/10/03/javascript-and-the-inner-workings-of-your-browser/#:~:text=The%20JavaScript%20engine%20is%20the,MacOS%2C%20Windows%2C%20or%20Linux.>
> 
> | [00:03:39] JM: Mathias Bynens, you are a software engineer at Google
> | working on developer advocacy on the V8 team. Welcome to Software
> | Engineering Daily.
> | 
> | […]
> | 
> | Give me a high-level perspective for the steps that are happening as
> | this webpage with some various forms of JavaScript opens up.
> | 
> | [00:04:26] MB: […]
> | 
> | So the first thing that happens is the JavaScript source code goes into
> | the JavaScript [engine’s] parser, which then takes that code and turns

The original reads “JavaScript engine sparser”.  I assumed that it is a 
typo.  But:

> […]
> | running the JavaScript already, which is great. It’s like all we have to
> | do is sparse it and then generate some bytecode in the interpreter, […]
          ^^^^^^

So maybe it was not a typo.  Is “sparse” in this context a part of 
compiler/language developer jargon, or a repeated typo (perhaps produced by 
the autocorrect feature of a word processor which did not know “parse”)?  If 
it is jargon, was does it mean (“string parse”?), and what exactly does it 
refer to?

As “sparse” is a proper English word (an adjective) with another meaning,
I was not successful finding it as a developer jargon term by Web search and 
in common online dictionaries and encyclopaedia (e.g. Wiktionary, FOLDOC, 
Merriam–Webster’s, Oxford Dictionary of English, Wikipedia).  It is not 
contained in the Jargon Lexicon’s glossary 
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/go01.html> either.

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Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-10 18:41 +0100
  Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-10 19:14 +0100
    Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-11 11:33 +0100
      Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-11 15:03 +0100
        Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-11 07:38 -0700
          Re: Loop optimisation. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-11 13:36 -0700
          Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-12 18:05 +0100
            Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-12 23:16 +0100
              Re: Loop optimisation. Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-04-13 05:19 -0700
                Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-13 06:21 -0700
        Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-12 01:36 +0100
          Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-12 18:04 +0100
            Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-12 23:09 +0100
              Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-13 20:08 +0100
                Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-13 21:41 +0100
                Re: Loop optimisation. John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2021-04-14 18:24 +0100
  Re: Loop optimisation. Kristjan Robam <he12457@hotmail.com> - 2021-04-10 13:36 -0700
    Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-11 11:34 +0100
  Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-10 22:22 -0700
    Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-11 11:36 +0100
    Re: Loop optimisation. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-14 02:20 +0200
      Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-14 06:48 -0700
        Re: Loop optimisation. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-14 17:31 +0200
          Re: Loop optimisation. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-14 18:00 +0200
            Re: Loop optimisation. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-04-14 19:25 +0100
            Re: Loop optimisation. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-14 23:10 +0200
              Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-17 09:45 -0700
            Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-17 09:43 -0700
              Re: Loop optimisation. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-04-17 21:45 +0200
                Re: Loop optimisation. Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2021-04-18 19:06 -0700
          Re: Loop optimisation. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-04-17 08:50 -0700

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