2008/5/18 Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Nice! Since it's just an "engine" rewrite, it won't mean any (public) API changes for JavaScriptCore right? > 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>. Just to make it obvious for anyone trying to check out the branch, the URL above misses the branches dir. The correct URL is http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/branches/squirrelfish/ -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
