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What's the benefits over v8?

• theMackabu 3mo ago
  its ~8mb including the entire runtime and node-compat work. pretty simple to embed anywhere as well
  • ptx 3mo ago
    And what are the tradesoffs? How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor?
    • theMackabu 3mo ago
      > How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor? Much less complex tiers of jit, no unicode ICU, and no startup js snapshot
      • hippietrail 3mo ago
        Does it roll its own Unicode solution without ICU, or does it forgo Unicode? Or somewhere in between?