Slimmer and faster strings in v8?

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Jacob G

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Jul 28, 2014, 4:11:29 PM7/28/14
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https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2014/07/21/slimmer-and-faster-javascript-strings-in-firefox/

Honestly, I'm not all into this and I'm therefore not sure if this is a thing in v8 already, or could be a thing. Still, I wanted to make sure the blog post doesn't get unnoticed, if there is any room for similar improvements in V8!

(Also, what does the V8 team think about http://blog.llvm.org/2014/07/ftl-webkits-llvm-based-jit.html ? Is V8 still faster? Especially after Apple's keynote which pretended that Safari is way faster than Chrome: http://qz.com/215880/every-chart-from-todays-apple-wwdc-keynote/)

Sven Panne

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Jul 29, 2014, 2:37:18 AM7/29/14
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Jacob G <kurte...@gmail.com> wrote:
https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2014/07/21/slimmer-and-faster-javascript-strings-in-firefox/

Honestly, I'm not all into this and I'm therefore not sure if this is a thing in v8 already, or could be a thing. Still, I wanted to make sure the blog post doesn't get unnoticed, if there is any room for similar improvements in V8!

V8 supports UTF16, UTF8 and Latin1 for quite some time now (years).
 
(Also, what does the V8 team think about http://blog.llvm.org/2014/07/ftl-webkits-llvm-based-jit.html ? Is V8 still faster? Especially after Apple's keynote which pretended that Safari is way faster than Chrome: http://qz.com/215880/every-chart-from-todays-apple-wwdc-keynote/)

Develop some new compiler => choose the right benchmarks (or even don't tell what you've measured) => make slides => profit... ;-) 

Jacob G

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Jul 29, 2014, 6:10:59 AM7/29/14
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Thanks for clearing that up! :)



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