Great, thanks Jakob

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 1:11 PM Jakob Kummerow <[email protected] wrote:

> We're working on JIT-less mode. Tracking bug:
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7777.
>
> AOT compilation is not supported (and generally not useful/beneficial with
> JavaScript), but you can create custom snapshots which are going a step in
> that direction.
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:31 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Now that builtins are binary embedded (and it sounds like there is a plan
>> to do the same with bytecode handlers), how far is v8 from being able to
>> run without JIT?  In the Ignition design doc, it notes that supporting
>> platforms not allowed to JIT code is a non-goal as JIT is still needed for
>> code stubs and ICs.  If all of the code stubs are binary embedded, then
>> code stubs shouldn't be a problem any longer.  For ICs, it seems like it
>> should be possible to just not use them (although this would be a major
>> slowdown).  It isn't totally clear to me why internal caches depend on JIT
>> (it seems like the interpreter should be able to use the offset information
>> directly).  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> P.S. As a related thought experiment, what would it take to run the
>> compiler pipeline on JavaScript code at compile time (similar to the
>> builtins) and actually embed that in the binary as well (allowing for AOT
>> JavaScript compilation)?
>>
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