On Jun 29, 7:15 am, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are snapshotting V8 libraries and what is the implication of enabling or 
> disabling them?

When snapshot is enabled, it "bundles" a clean v8 vm context with a
lot of already compiled JavaScript and whatnot. This allows for faster
startup and faster creation of additional vm contexts.

Specifically from the v8 Embedder's Guide [1]: "With the V8 snapshot
feature (activated with build option snapshot=yes, which is the
default) the time spent creating the first context will be highly
optimized as a snapshot includes a serialized heap which contains
already compiled code for the built-in JavaScript code."

[1] https://developers.google.com/v8/embed#contexts

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