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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:55:18 -0500
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Subject: Re: JavaScript 1.8 Features in SpiderMonkey (Please?)
From: Zachary Zolton <zachary.zolton@gmail.com>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
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So, let's see if I've correctly understood the commentary.

Once Mozilla makes a proper release of SpiderMonkey 1.8 available, and
I see it available in some popular* package management systems, I
should feel free to attempt to make the switch and submit a patch for
review.

I'm still a bit fuzzy on which package management systems I'll need to wait=
 for=85

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> That was against an early TraceMonkey build which is 1.9, =A0not 1.8 . Fi=
refox
> 3 ships with 1.8 and generally uses less memory than FF2.5 so I would hop=
e
> this isn't the case.
>
> -Mikeal
>
> On Mar 23, 2009, at March 23, 200911:45 AM, Bradford Winfrey wrote:
>
>> If I recall, I believe Jan tried implementing it a while back to see if
>> TraceMonkey sped things up any in regard to the views and (I believe) he
>> found it was a lot heavier in terms of memory consumption. =A0Something =
to
>> watch for if it hasn't already been remedied (it likely has, it was in a
>> rather early stage at that time, but still).
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
>> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
>> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:34:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: JavaScript 1.8 Features in SpiderMonkey (Please?)
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Zachary Zolton
>> <zachary.zolton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The functional features in JavaScript 1.8 could greatly aid developers
>>> when writing map-reduce functions for views.
>>>
>>> Does anyone oppose upping the language version? If so, I'd appreciate
>>> hearing their reasons.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it'd be a good idea to require until it hits general
>> consumption (as in, shows up in package managers). Their build
>> procedure is at best, 'interesting'. Also, there's nothing to keep you
>> from linking couchjs against a newer version of the library. I haven't
>> groked all of the API breakage but there was a report on the list
>> awhile back that seemed to indicate that it only involved a minor
>> patch.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Paul Davis
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Zach
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>