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It is my understanding that you cannot use Blink without V8. I believe it was part of the incentive to fork. Am I wrong?
by espadrine 13y ago
It is my understanding that you cannot use Blink without V8. I believe it was part of the incentive to fork. Am I wrong?
- dragonwriter 13y ago> It is my understanding that you cannot use Blink without V8. I believe it was part of the incentive to fork. Am I wrong? Part of the incentive to fork was to avoid having to maintain support for multiple JS engines in the core project. I don't think that means that Blink requires V8 so much as that Blink's support for JS engines (compared to pre-split WebKit's) no longer includes explicit support for the engine used by Safari (whose name I can't remember) as part of the source tree, and presumably will over time be more tightly adapted to the needs of V8. This would seem to mean it will progressively become more difficult to build a Blink-based browser using a different JS engine.
- cpleppert 13y agoThey intend to tie V8 and the Dom deeper in the next versions of Chrome by using a new garbage collector. I'm pretty sure it will be well nigh impossible to use another Javascript engine.