Oliver - Ok, well that makes sense. I was under the mistaken impression webkit had an engine abstraction, and that it wasn't being move forward to webkit2.
Darin - If by webkit developer you mean I contribute to webkit, then no. I do however use webkit in several projects. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > They may have a desire for it, but certainly not a need -- Webkit includes > a well maintained, guaranteed ABI stable JS engine that works on _all_ > architectures, with a high performance JIT support available on numerous > architectures and OS's. Being able to support two engines just in webcore > has added substantial complexity to the codebase, and has led to many > features being implemented only for one engine but not the other. There is > a very large and substantial cost to this, and very little actual benefit. > > We have repeatedly stated that support for JS engines other than that > provided by webkit is not a primary goal of webkit, and ports that wish to > make use of any other engines do so at their own risk, and there attempts > to do so can't interfere with the actual webkit project. > > --Oliver > > On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Jake wrote: > > What constitutes a need? Qt obviously has a need for it. Is there a > threshold of ports needing a feature before it becomes blessed? > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Jake <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I believe it's a disservice to the community as a whole to not provide >> proper javascript engine abstractions in webkit. >> >> I don’t agree. >> >> We should have abstractions for things that need to be abstract. Too many >> abstractions make the code much harder to work with. >> >> -- Darin > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > >
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