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.
> >


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