On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all!
> I would like to ask if it is possible/ advisable to build node.js with a
> newer version of v8. I noticed that the current version of v8 used in node
> is 5.1.xx while I need to use 5.3.xx onwards.
> I am working on profiling jitted code with perf. At a first glance I didn't
> see any changes related to perf between the v8 versions mentioned above,
> however I can't get any meaningful output with earlier versions of v8.
> I briefly tried manually replacing the v8 sources in the dependencies and
> tweaking the build scripts but unfortunately it wasn't as simple as that. Is
> it meant to be that way or is there somewhere a documented process of
> updating the v8 version?
> If not, may I ask if there are any plans for such an update in the near
> future?
> Thank you very much and best regards,
> Georgios

@targos is working on upgrading to V8 5.4, you could use his
work-in-progress branch: https://github.com/targos/node/tree/v8-5.4

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