[Vm-dev] [VM-dev] Can we be a JavaScript engine?

[Clément Bera]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> It is just a question from the space :)
>
> I wonder, can we be a JavaScript engine? Like replacing nodeJs with
> Pharo/Squeak.
> I imagine that JS prototypes can be easily supported by anonymous classes.
> What is missing?
>

Not really. Efficient prototypes requires deep VM changes in memory
representation of objects.


>
> Best regards,
> Denis
>
>


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