With v8 3.12.x, there is now an ability to specify a .js file to be included in the snapshot with the --extra_code flag: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11109538/node-js-v8-how-to-make-my-own-snapshot-to-accelerate-startup http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=11871
It has been noted that Node is not loaded at the time of the snapshot. Would you consider adding the functionality on build to create a snapshot of V8+Node+<your app> so that everything can be deployed this way? I can imagine people could use this to deploy client-side Node apps without giving away the cleartext .js files. Of course this could also mean faster startup of Node in general. Well, I have been trying to replace the v8 version in the Node source to build with this version, but there are fatal build errors. Are there any pointers on how to modify v8 taken from the svn source so that it will build under Node?
