Has anyone tried porting Blink and V8 to Native Client?

[Cary Cherng]

I'm curious, has anyone tried porting the core of Chrome, Blink and V8, to Native Client?

The intent being to run the entire website of normal html, css, and javascript inside Native Client. But allow extra parts to be added to the pexe through dynamic loading such as audio and video codecs that are unsupported by Chrome.

[Andrey Khalyavin]

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:41:12 PM UTC+4, Cary Cherng wrote:

I'm curious, has anyone tried porting the core of Chrome, Blink and V8, to Native Client?

V8 JIT will not work since it generates non-nacl code. 

The intent being to run the entire website of normal html, css, and javascript inside Native Client. But allow extra parts to be added to the pexe through dynamic loading such as audio and video codecs that are unsupported by Chrome.

Dynamic loading doesn't work in PNaCl yet.

-- Andrey Khalyavin 

[Brad Chen]

V8 has been ported to Native Client, although the port used an unsavory trick of having V8 generate ARM instructions and then use a portable ARM interpreter to avoid the need to port V8 code generators to NaCl. You should be able to observe this by checking out V8 source and following the standard build/test instructions using targets nacl_ia32 or nacl_x64.

We had tests running in the V8 bots for a little while but they were breaking too frequently so I expect they may have regressed.

Brad

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[Johan Heinstedt]

https://codereview.chromium.org/20493002/