On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Roger WANG <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 20:21 +0800 Nayan Kumar K wrote: > > Sorry to open up this discussion again, :) Based on the recent > developments > > in bug https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32452 and > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69469, it seems like some are > keen > > on having V8 as an configurable build option in WebKit-GTK. > > One obvious advantage of using V8 in WebKit-GTK is faster JS engine (at > this > > point of time!). Moreover, it will be provided as separate build option > and > > SFX will continue to be the default JS engine. If we ever in future wish > to > > shift completely to V8, such transition would be smoother. > > > > On the down-side, I understand the concern about code maintainability > and we > > are ready to maintain any code changes that are added for V8. > > > > Please let me know your suggestions, concerns, comments and feedback, we > > will try to address them and conclude on whether to push this patch or > not. > > > > Thanks, > > Thank you for your work. > > Here we're developing a WebKit module for NodeJS so people could write > native applications with web technology, utilizing various NodeJS > libraries. And having a WebKit/V8 makes the project possible - in order > to have JS code from WebKit call JS code in NodeJS, the 2 V8 contexts > (from WebKit and NodeJS) were merged somehow. It's not possible to do > this between 2 different JS engines. > Thank you for showing interest in this patch. I have currently paused up-streaming V8 porting work, as we are yet to conclude on having this feature upstream. This is one of the use case where a WebKit-GTK consumer would want to have the support for V8. In my opinion, we really don't need to release WebKit-GTK with V8 variant build, but let the user build it for himself if he wish to have WebKit-GTK with V8. But, yes, I completely agree about the code maintainability part of view, but is it not worth it? -- > Roger WANG Intel Open Source Technology Center > > -- Cheers, *Nayan*
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