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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
