2009/3/30 Mads Sig Ager <[email protected]>:
> we are planning to start work on a 64-bit port.  This is a rather big
> project (requires changes throughout the runtime system, code
> generator and memory management system) and I don't think it would be
> feasible as a SoC project.

Maybe some smaller part of it? When is it planned exactly? Before SoC?
I would really like to help getting V8 64bit friendly cause that seems
the big showstopper for 64bit chromium.

> To get familiar with the code base, I would start by looking at the
> memory model in objects.h and the runtime system in objects.cc.  This
> should give you an understanding of the way V8 objects are laid out in
> memory and how the basic object manipulation happens.  From there, you
> can dive into the code generator (codegen-ia32) to see how inline
> caching is used.

Thanks!

-- 
Pozdrowienia,
Piotr Jaroszyński

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