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hiteshk_msft
9y ago
Microsoft (Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/ The Chakra JavaScript runtime team works on Chakra (the JavaScript
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hiteshk_msft
9y ago
Microsoft (Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/ The Chakra JavaScript runtime team works on Chakra (the JavaScript
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hiteshk_msft
9y ago
Microsoft (Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Software Engineer | Seattle (Redmond) | On-Site | Full-time The Chakra JavaScript runtime team works on Chakra (the JavaScript runtime that powers Edge and other Microsoft properties), and Chakra
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hiteshk_msft
10y ago
Some of these suggestions are good but some caveats: - Lookup tables- while lookup tables are great, engines might sometimes convert switch statements to lookup tables too- Chakra does this when it's advantageous to do so - Try-catch-
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hiteshk_msft
10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, great idea! However, it's really early days for us still- as the blog post mentions, we are still working on implementing the JIT and concurrent GC which are quite important to awesome performance. When we co
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
This sounds similar to kernel debugging- is that what you have in mind? Windows (the OS I'm most familiar with) has a couple different styles of kernel debugging, which allows you to introspect various levels of system state: https:&#
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
For now. The Linux branch of ChakraCore is under active development. Disclaimer: working at Msft on ChakraCore
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
This is more so that we have something that helps us break the problem into several steps to accomplish the goal. JIT will come after.
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
It's not on the short term roadmap because we've scoped it to clang 3.6 x64 Ubuntu while we stand up the branch but we're trying to keep our code changes for the port pretty generic.
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
Check out the Linux branch :) we are actively working on a port. Disclaimer: Msft employee on chakra
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
That's correct, this announcement is only about ChakraCore being open sourced. I have no knowledge and can't comment on what the Edge teams plans are.
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
Engineer on Chakra here- are these the docs you're looking for? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249552(v=vs.94).a...
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hiteshk_msft
11y ago
Engineer on the Chakra team here. As the blog post says, we are definitely interested in going cross-platform. Which platforms would you be interested in seeing first?