On 25/01/13 11:18, Jason Smith wrote:
My **tentative** position is that V8 is a waste of time. We should use
Node.js, not V8. In other words, we should not change couchjs to link
against libv8.so instead of libmozjs.so. Instead, we should **remove** the
couchjs binary and build a 100% compatible node version. Again, this is my
*suspicion* but I want to explore it more.
Embedding V8 is, roughly, the same work as embedding SpiderMonkey. It does
not change much. We still depend on an obscure VM with a quirky build
system.
According to Wiki
"Node.js is a packaged compilation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the libUV
platform
abstraction layer, and a core library, which is itself primarily written in
JavaScript."
"We still depend on an obscure VM ( so V8 is an obscure VM although it is
embedded in Node.js ) with a quirky build system."
Get rid of all quirky build systems, use rebar which builds everything AND
produces an installable relocatable executable package containing Erlang VM
and V8 VM and C routines as NIF's where required for speed.
So Node "is" V8 plus a lot more which is not required
--
David Martin
