What it the significance of the Javascript constructor property?

Trying to bend by head around Javascript's take on OO...and, like many others, running into confusion about the constructor property. In particular, the significance of the constructor property, as I can't seem to make it have any effect. E.g.:

function Foo(age) {
    this.age = age;
}

function Bar() {
    Foo.call(this, 42);
    this.name = "baz"; 
}

Bar.prototype = Object.create(Foo.prototype); 
var b = new Bar;    

alert(b.constructor); // "Foo". That's OK because we inherit `Foo`'s prototype.
alert(b.name);        // "baz". Shows that Bar() was called as constructor.
alert(b.age);         // "42", inherited from `Foo`.

In the above example, the object b seems to have had the right constructor called (Bar) – and it inherits the age property from Foo. So why do many people suggest this as a necessary step:

Bar.prototype.constructor = Bar;

Clearly, the right Bar constructor was called when constructing b, so what impact does this prototype property have? I am curious to know what practical difference it actually makes to have the constructor property set 'correctly'—as I can't see it having any affect on which constructor is actually called after an object is created.