That means the current JS Engine (SquirrelFish Extreme) can be run on embedded/mobile platforms in bytecode mode without JIT. Correct me if I am wrong? If I am correct, then how to enable the engine's bytecode mode? There are number of ENABLE switches related to current JS engine...
Regards, J R Shah On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Holger Freyther wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 14:00:19 Javed Rabbani wrote: >> >>> I want to know whether WebKit JavaScript Engine SquirrelFish Extreme >>> (SFX) >>> has been reported to work on any embedded, non-x86 platform? >>> >> >> No, the extreme variant is only working on x86 and work on progress on the >> amd64... >> > > To be more specific: > > 1) The JS engine should work on any CPU and on most reasonable operating > systems in bytecode mode. It's still pretty fast as bytecode - nearly an > order of magnitude faster than the old WebKit JS engine. > > 2) Currently the JIT only fully works on x86 and will soon also work on > x86_64 (currently some basic tests pass but neither performance nor > correctness are where we want them to be). > > 3) We are considering ports of the JIT to other CPU architectures. For > mobile platforms, it's not entirely clear whether the JIT will turn out to > be better than the bytecode interpreter - the memory cost might outweigh the > speed benefit. > > Regards, > Maciej > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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