If I recall, I believe Jan tried implementing it a while back to see if
TraceMonkey sped things up any in regard to the views and (I believe) he found
it was a lot heavier in terms of memory consumption. Something to watch for if
it hasn't already been remedied (it likely has, it was in a rather early stage
at that time, but still).
Brad
________________________________
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:34:50 PM
Subject: Re: JavaScript 1.8 Features in SpiderMonkey (Please?)
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Zachary Zolton
<zachary.zol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The functional features in JavaScript 1.8 could greatly aid developers
> when writing map-reduce functions for views.
>
> Does anyone oppose upping the language version? If so, I'd appreciate
> hearing their reasons.
>
I don't think it'd be a good idea to require until it hits general
consumption (as in, shows up in package managers). Their build
procedure is at best, 'interesting'. Also, there's nothing to keep you
from linking couchjs against a newer version of the library. I haven't
groked all of the API breakage but there was a report on the list
awhile back that seemed to indicate that it only involved a minor
patch.
HTH,
Paul Davis
>
> Thank you,
>
> Zach
>
