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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:55:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: Branch to switch from SpiderMonkey to Node.js
From: Ryan Ramage <ryan.ramage@gmail.com>
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Heck, let the man experiment :) It's pretty great that most of the diff is
removal of stuff anyway. Thanks for the heads up and keep us informed.


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:35 AM, david martin
<david.martin@lymegreen.co.uk>wrote:

> On 25/01/13 11:18, Jason Smith wrote:
>
>> My **tentative** position is that V8 is a waste of time. We should use
>> Node.js, not V8. In other words, we should not change couchjs to link
>> against libv8.so instead of libmozjs.so. Instead, we should **remove** the
>> couchjs binary and build a 100% compatible node version. Again, this is my
>> *suspicion*  but I want to explore it more.
>>
>> Embedding V8 is, roughly, the same work as embedding SpiderMonkey. It does
>> not change much. We still depend on an obscure VM with a quirky build
>> system.
>>
> According to Wiki
>
> "Node.js is a packaged compilation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the
> libUV platform
> abstraction layer, and a core library, which is itself primarily written
> in JavaScript."
>
> "We still depend on an obscure VM ( so V8 is an obscure VM although it is
> embedded in Node.js ) with a quirky build system."
>
> Get rid of all quirky build systems, use rebar which builds everything AND
> produces an installable relocatable executable package containing Erlang VM
> and V8  VM and C routines as NIF's where required for speed.
>
> So Node "is" V8 plus a lot more which is not required
>
>
> --
> David Martin
>
>

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