Interpreters are slow. V8's purpose is to be fast. Implementing an interpreter is of course possible, but it is probably a lot of work. Whether or not it will be accepted into the V8 codebase will probably depend on its merits.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Arunprasad Rajkumar <[email protected] > wrote: > Is there any specific reason for not having platform independent > Interpreter? Will community accepts tat implementation? I'm thinking to > implement LLInt kind of interpreter for v8 as like JSC. Is it possible or > hard to do tat? > > > On 23 November 2012 20:19, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> V8 does not have a platform-independent interpreter. V8 does not run on >> SH4 hardware at this time. >> >> You might be interested to know that an (unofficial) SH4-port is being >> worked on: https://codereview.chromium.org/11275184/ , however I have no >> idea when that will be usable. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Arunprasad Rajkumar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi V8 Developers, >>> >>> I'm new to V8. Does V8 has platform neutral Interpreter implementation >>> ..? Some googling says it has only JIT mode of execution. Since I'm working >>> on a platform(SH4) where v8 doesn't have JIT implementation. >>> >>> -- >>> v8-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >> >> >> -- >> v8-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >> > > > > -- > *Arunprasad Rajkumar* > http://in.linkedin.com/in/ararunprasad > > -- > v8-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev
