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Since it's presented as a "tiny" runtime, I'd like a size comparaison between this and Node in the readme. Same thing with the use cases (learning projects or "

by Zababa 5y ago

Since it's presented as a "tiny" runtime, I'd like a size comparaison between this and Node in the readme. Same thing with the use cases (learning projects or "just for fun" are very valid use cases!).

oso2k 5y ago
QuickJS [0] quotes a 210KiB binary. [0] https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/
Zababa 5y ago
Replying to myself, on Pop!_OS I get a final tjs build of 1.8 Mo. My Node weighs 71 M for comparaison.
- edflsafoiewq 5y ago
  Why is node so large?
  - c-smile 5y ago
    V8 alone is around 40/50 Mb.
    - oso2k 5y ago
      And used to be under 10 MB. https://groups.google.com/g/v8-users/c/OaC4TQQjxFg https://groups.google.com/g/v8-users/c/OaC4TQQjxFg
  - Zababa 5y ago
    Probably because Node (and V8) don't try to optimize for size but for speed of execution.
- c-smile 5y ago
  In fact 1.8 Mb is quite a lot for QuickJS. My Sciter engine that includes as QuickJS as HTML/CSS engines is about 6 Mb. My port of QuickJS [1] that also includes persistent storage (think of MongoDB built into JS) is 736 Kb on Windows. [1] https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp
  - Zababa 5y ago
    The project also includes wasm3 for WASM, curl and libuv. That's probably what's taking space.