Re: [dev] surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK

From: Louis Santillan <lpsantil_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:22:50 -0700

FYI,

There's also quad-wheel [0] which claims ES3 compliance and based upon ANSI C.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/quad-wheel/

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsantil_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> duktape is a great find and appears quite complete. But still seems
> quite large. There's also Tiny-JS [0] (2k-ish LOC), 42Tiny-JS [1] (a
> forked, enhanced, more complete version), and Espruinio [2] (same
> original author as Tiny-JS, more complete but focused on Arduino
> applications).
>
> [0] https://code.google.com/p/tiny-js/
> [1] https://code.google.com/p/42tiny-js/
> [2] https://github.com/espruino/Espruino
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Anthony J. Bentley <anthony_AT_cathet.us> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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