Runtime & Execution
What happens after parse: how JavaScript is executed, scheduled, and reclaimed.
Part: 00 · Foundations · Priority: Critical
Taxonomy
Second-level groups and their articles. Each article is a standalone entry following the template; its filename is the kebab-case form of the title.
Engine Internals
- Parsing & Bytecode
- JIT Compilation & Deoptimization
- Hidden Classes & Shapes
- Inline Caches
Execution Context
- The Call Stack
- Async Stack Frames & Continuations
- Stack Traces & Debug Symbols
Memory Management
- The Memory Model & the Heap
- Garbage Collection Strategies
- Retained Memory & Leak Detection
- Weak References & Finalizers
Multithreading
- Web Workers
- Shared Workers & Message Passing
- SharedArrayBuffer & Atomics
- Worklets
Beyond JavaScript
- WebAssembly Fundamentals
- JS ↔ Wasm Interop
- Polyglot Runtime Targets
Index only. One canonical home per concept — overlapping ideas are owned here and cross-linked from other domains, never duplicated.