I doubt the V8 tail will ever wag the Chrome dog.
Pete Gontier <http://pete.gontier.org/> On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If V8 devs have good technical reasons why V8 should not run in 64-bit > mode (double the pointer size is a pretty flimsy reason, since the > vast majority of Javascript programs are too small for it to matter), > then that's fine. However, this is not a good reason for abandoning > everyone whose applications are 64-bit for solid technical reasons, > eg. thousands of scientific programmers, but who still want to run V8 > for their scripting. > > If V8 isn't going to be made available in a 64-bit version, then at > the very least a compatibility or 32-bit emulation/interfacing library > should be created, so that 64-bit applications can run with 32-bit V8 > in some way other than by direct linkage. > > Morgaine. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
