So, let's see if I've correctly understood the commentary. Once Mozilla makes a proper release of SpiderMonkey 1.8 available, and I see it available in some popular* package management systems, I should feel free to attempt to make the switch and submit a patch for review.
I'm still a bit fuzzy on which package management systems I'll need to wait for… On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Mikeal Rogers <mikeal.rog...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was against an early TraceMonkey build which is 1.9, not 1.8 . Firefox > 3 ships with 1.8 and generally uses less memory than FF2.5 so I would hope > this isn't the case. > > -Mikeal > > On Mar 23, 2009, at March 23, 200911:45 AM, Bradford Winfrey wrote: > >> 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 from linking couchjs against a newer version of the library.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 >>> >> >> >> > >
