Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1110 from 2013/5/24
From: Nederland
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Are you planning on keeping WebKit as the engine for Odyssey or migrating
> to the Blink engine at some point?
I think I read that there's some intertwining in place (or at least planned) between Blink and the V8 JavaScript engine. Thing is that so far, V8 is only available for x86(-64), ARM and MIPS. There've been
attempts at porting it to Power Architecture but none has come to pass so far.
(Yes, I know I'm not Fab but replied anyway
:)
Ah yes I didn't think about that.
So if I understand correctly then, the JavaScriptCore engine currently used in Webkit has two versions. One for x86/64/arm that JIT compiles the JS and another for PPC et al that is purely an interpreter?
Or is there just one engine and it also JITs for PPC too?
If the former, what happens if/when Webkit drops their interpreter?
Just thinking out loud. :)
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