Bounty time on MorphOS.pl

[nicholas]

I find interesting the Javascript JIT Compiler for PowerPC but I'd like to know if it's going to be based or integrated inside other major JS JIT... I mean: will it be a v8 port? I would prefer that the changes got integrated in a mainstream JS JIT as perhaps other developers could help to maintain it. A v8 PowerPC port could be interesting...

IBM have already ported V8 to PPC so hopefully it shouldn't take too long to add it to Odyssey.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/v8-dev/06ReYVfFgGA/
https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc

[nicholas]

Answer from BigFoot regarding V8: It's for Webkit's 'JavaScriptCore'. OWB does not, and will not, use V8. V8 is a Chrome thing, not a Webkit thing.

Yes I asked Fab about his plans regarding the Blink engine not long ago and he said he would be staying with Webkit for Odyssey.

That pretty much confirmed no V8 for Odyssey, but back then V8 was for Webkit as Blink had not been forked at that point.

The TenFourFox PPC browser has a JIT and work is underway to port it to Leopard-Webkit.

https://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/

[nicholas]

I just donated 50 Zloty to the fund. Let's hope the total amount exceeds the minimum bounty requirement!