Victor Gomes details the elegant hack (in the best sense of the word) he and the V8 team came up with to significantly increase V8’s JavaScript function call performance (by up to 40% in some cases).

Until recently, V8 had a special machinery to deal with arguments size mismatch: the arguments adaptor frame. Unfortunately, argument adaption comes at a performance cost, but is commonly needed in modern front-end and middleware frameworks. It turns out that, with a clever trick, we can remove this extra frame, simplify the V8 codebase and get rid of almost the entire overhead.

A fascinating read and fantastic performance improvements for all to enjoy.