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There's no guarantee that it will succeed, but the fact that they're willing to sacrifice some considerable degree of compatibility to achieve other important g
by curtis 10y ago
There's no guarantee that it will succeed, but the fact that they're willing to sacrifice some considerable degree of compatibility to achieve other important goals may make the project a lot easier to pull off.
I still think Unladen Swallow should have been based on V8, but as I recall that project had very strict compatibility goals that would have made a V8-based implementation impossible.
- gsnedders 10y agoEven ignoring the extension-compatibility goal, at the time Unladen Swallow began, V8 was nothing more than an AST-based JITing interpreter, hence there were far fewer generally applicable parts of the code compared with today.