Re:Ten years of V8
by cpeterso on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:08PM
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Not at this time. The SpiderMonkey code is evolving quickly and Rust's safety guarantees won't help much when executing the JIT-generated code. Servo uses SpiderMonkey.
The SpiderMonkey team has prototyped some JITs using Rust. The "Holy JIT" (a pun on Oracle's Graal VM name) is a meta-compiler for JITs:
The SpiderMonkey team has prototyped some JITs using Rust. The "Holy JIT" (a pun on Oracle's Graal VM name) is a meta-compiler for JITs:
https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...
https://medium.com/@jponge/the-graalvm-frenzy-f54257f5932c