Hi Paul, Thanks for your detailed intro. We are using Webkit with JSC, but we'd also like to switch to V8 Crankshaft for further perf gains. It seems like V8(full code gen) and JSC are on the same par.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Paul Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wan Li - > > I was not referring to build differences between Android and non-Android > (though there are some) but rather to maintaining release branches for older > versions of v8. > > Google maintains release branches for older versions that are still in > active use, and we do a similar thing in our github repo. > > For instance Android Honeycomb mr2 uses v8 version 2.5.9.20. Gingerbread > and Froyo use older versions of v8. For the Mips versions of Android we have > moved to a v8 based on version 3.2.3. > > And for Mips, we have another issue in that the v8-team removed the classic > code-generator as of version 3.2.7. Since we have not yet finished > development of the Crankshaft code-generator, that limits our performance on > more recent builds. This will become a non-issue as soon as we get our > Crankshaft version released. > > So depending on what you want to achieve, you may not want to pull our > latest version (or the latest from the v8-team's tree), but rather use an > older release branch. If you are using Android, I recommend that you just > get the included v8 as part of our normal mips-android release. > > thanks, > -- >: ~ -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
