[webkit-dev] SquirrelFish in WebKitGtk

[Oliver Hunt]

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> Is there a way to find out what JavaScript engine WebKit is using?
> I have WebKit-r38068 and i'm using the GTK port.
> How can i know if my WebKit is using SquirrelFish or the old JS  
> Engine?

The old AST engine was removed in June when we switch to the original  
SquirrelFish, so you can't not have SF now :D
Likewise once SquirrelFish Extreme was landed it became non-optional.   
It is possible you won't get the JIT as
that's architecture dependent, but if you're on x86-32 you should be  
fine.

On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:41 AM, Iulian wrote:

>
> Ok. If SquirrelFish is using bytecode, as people say, JavaScript  
> code from
> web pages doesn't have to be compiled somehow? How do we do that?
> What about the JavaScript objects that are created using the  
> JavaScriptAPI?
> How does SquirrelFish handle these objects?

I'm not sure what you mean by this, i'd recommend you look at the  
initial blog post at
http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/ .  But whether we  
use bytecode,
native code, or an AST interpreter is secondary to the internal  
representation of object.
The implementation of objects can be seen in JavaScriptCore/runtime/ 
JSObject.{h,cpp}
and you an see that there's no dependency on JavaScriptCore's  
execution engine.

--Oliver

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>
> Iulian
>
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> Ariya Hidayat-3 wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way to find out what JavaScript engine WebKit is using?
>>> I have WebKit-r38068 and i'm using the GTK port.
>>> How can i know if my WebKit is using SquirrelFish or the old JS  
>>> Engine?
>>
>> WebKit has switched to SquirrelFish-based JSC since quite some time.
>> r38068 is
>> from around November, so it should use SquirrelFish already.
>>
>> Note that SquirrelFish Extreme is of course a different matter.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ariya Hidayat, Software Engineer
>> Qt Software, Nokia Devices R&D
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