Andre Somers wrote: > Would it be conceptually feasible to separate V8's engine from V8 > itself, and make V8 link against the separated out engine? Would such a > change in V8 be accepted upstream? If so, then it would open up the > perspective of just using V8's regexp engine, and don't load the rest of > it if not needed...
I would like to avoid doing a lot of work for the benefit of contrived use cases. For users of Qt as a platform there isn't much value in having the RE engine cleanly isolated from everything else. On the other hand, there are probably benefits to having it integrated with the JS engine for those who also use it. Granted, it's a double-edged sword... or small swiss-army knife. But then the real question shouldn't be "what if I don't want a JS engine in my application?", but rather "what's the cost?". Also consider that, as with any project, the chances of getting stuff integrated upstream usually correlates with value and usefulness of said stuff to upstream project and their users. In the competitive landscape of JS engines I would expect our bargaining power to be *very*non-existent... Cheers, João _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
