If V8 devs have good technical reasons why V8 should not run in 64-bit mode (double the pointer size is a pretty flimsy reason, since the vast majority of Javascript programs are too small for it to matter), then that's fine. However, this is not a good reason for abandoning everyone whose applications are 64-bit for solid technical reasons, eg. thousands of scientific programmers, but who still want to run V8 for their scripting.
If V8 isn't going to be made available in a 64-bit version, then at the very least a compatibility or 32-bit emulation/interfacing library should be created, so that 64-bit applications can run with 32-bit V8 in some way other than by direct linkage. Morgaine. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
