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> This also means that its size is tiny, in the order of a few kilobytes in contrast to the 20+MB required by its counterparts. A full, performant ES2023 runti
by mattashii 3y ago
> This also means that its size is tiny, in the order of a few kilobytes in contrast to the 20+MB required by its counterparts.
A full, performant ES2023 runtime, in "the order of a few kilobytes"? Even when you remove all JIT and GC, that sounds too fantastic.
I'll believe it when I see it.
- ricardobeat 3y agoQuickJS is well known and has been around for a while: https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/
- mattashii 3y agoSure, but as the linked page mentions, QuickJS is 210KiB, which is seemingly larger than "in the order of a few kilobytes" claimed by the subject's blog post.