Hi Jens,
On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:34, Jens Alfke wrote:
How hard would it be to plug a different JavaScript engine into
CouchDB? Nothing against SpiderMonkey, but the new generation of JS
engines are a whole lot faster. I've got Google's V8 built as a
command-line tool; would it be possible to use it in CouchDB?
I tried TraceMonkey when it came out and it was not too hard to swap
out.
(I'm not even sure whether CouchDB runs any JS in-process or
outsources it all to an external process.)
It's all external.
See your default.ini file:
[query_servers]
javascript = /path/to/couchjs /path/to/couchdb/server/main.js
You need a binary that can run main.js and place it into the above
directive.
That's it.
Let us know what you find out! :)
Cheers
Jan
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