Can Javascript be considered a interpreted language when using Google Chrome (V8)?

Question

I was reading this excellent article on V8, Google\'s Javascript engine: https://developers.google.com/v8/design#mach_code.

At one point, they say that Javascript is

Answer 1

This is why "interpreted language" and "compiled language" are examples of sloppy terminology. Whether a language is compiled or interpreted is an attribute of an implementation, not of the language itself.

Many people confuse "dynamically typed languages" (like JavaScript) with "interpreted" and "statically typed language" with "compiled", but these are merely correlations rather than absolutes. It is possible to compile a dynamic language (although it's generally trickier than compiling a static one), and it's possible to interpret a static language (eg: Hugs is an interpreter for Haskell).