F Hssn writes:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Andrew Hills <ahills_AT_ednos.net> wrote:
> > On 10/25/14 13:41, F Hssn wrote:
> >>
> >> Following suckless's minimal philosophy, I'd be interested to find out
> >> ... <snip> ...
> >> latest webkit.
> >
> >
> > Do you really want to write your own Javascript engine?
> >
>
> Well, I hadn't thought of that but now that you mentioned, I
> downloaded v8 and spidermonkey sources, 0.5 vs 1.2 million (both
> mostly C++). Then in v8 I noticed it has directories for architectures
> like arm arm64 mips mips64 ia32. I removed those directories and left
> only x87 and x64 and ended up with 333k, with 223k lines of C++ source
> files.
>
> To answer your question, I guess it comes down to how much time I have
> (as always) which is, not much. But I would definitely like some
> "suckless cleanup" in this direction, just like in other directions.
Duktape isn't perfect but it's at least within the realm of sanity:
http://duktape.org/
--
Anthony J. Bentley
Received on Sun Oct 26 2014 - 19:23:30 CET