Conveniently the build is currently broken :-( Building r33552 should be good though.
--Oliver On May 17, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Over the past few weeks, a few of us have been working on a major > reworking of the JavaScriptCore interpreter, code named > "SquirrelFish". This work has been done mainly by Geoff Garen, Oliver > Hunt and Cameron Zwarich, with help from myself, Sam Weinig, and > occasional others. The classic version of JavaScriptCore is an AST- > based interpreter. Although it was highly tuned, and competitive with > advanced bytecode engines in benchmarks, we could see that we would > run into the limits of the architecture soon. > > So we started SquirrelFish, an incremental rewrite of JavaScriptCore's > execution logic to convert it into a state-of-the art bytecode VM. > Most of this work has been done on a branch of the public SVN > repository, to avoid destabilizing the trunk. We are now very close to > finishing off the last few blockers. There will be a formal > announcement to the general public when we are ready, including > performance data and more details about the internals. But for now I > wanted to let WebKit insiders know that it is coming. > > We are also at the point where we could use testing help to verify > that SquirrelFish can handle the real-world web. If anyone would like > to help test, and is willing to get their hands a bit dirty, check out > <http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/squirrelfish>. > > Regards, > Maciej > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev