[webkit-dev] The SquirrelFish Cometh

KwangYul Seo kwangyul.seo at gmail.com
Sun May 25 00:02:18 PDT 2008


The URL given above is still broken. Have you merged the SquirrelFish into
the main trunk?


On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2008/5/18 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>:
> > 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/
>
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