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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by ksec on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:46AM (#5453973)
On the Note of Node.js, i was wondering if there will ever be a Node.js based on IonMonkey + Baseline Compiler instead of V8.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by ed_blackburn on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:12AM (#5454028)
On the Note of Node.js, i was wondering if there will ever be a Node.js based on IonMonkey + Baseline Compiler instead of V8.

The engineer in my says, cool idea and judging by libuv [0] The joyent / node.js team seems to be open to abstractions, if help is offered.

Assuming the technical task isn't too expensive in terms of leaky abstractions or ripple, one has to ask the next question, if V8 works...why, would it be worth it?

[0] https://github.com/joyent/libuv

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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by surrealize on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:52AM (#5455112)
The mozilla guys took a stab at creating a "spidernode" a while back:

https://github.com/zpao/spidernode

but then they dropped it.

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