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Modern JS engines rely on tracing JITs

Which modern JS engine still relies on tracing? I thought they’d all moved on from that technique many years ago, but I’m not an expert in JS.

Yes, I misused a term of art, thank you for the correction. I meant only to distinguish modern engines that rely on runtime profiling, from the wholly static approach in this post.

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