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by d08ble 3534 days ago
JS is wanted unlimited memory consumption in the language specs. JS is good, but impossible for low-memory tasks.
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CharlesW 3534 days ago
It depends on your definition of "low-memory". The Kinoma XS JavaScript ES6 runtime[1] is designed specifically for low memory/CPU limited embedded devices, and runs very comfortably on 200 MHz ARM devices with 512 KB RAM.

[1] http://kinoma.com/develop/documentation/technotes/introducin...

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titzer 3534 days ago
Looks like that is ES5 only.
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CharlesW 3534 days ago
It currently scores 96.8% on the ES6 Compatibility Table hosted by kangax[1], which is pretty good. That's native, no polyfills or transpiler.

EDIT: Kinoma claims ES6 compatibility is at 98% as of 2016-01-02.[2]

[1] https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ [2] http://www.kinoma.com/develop/documentation/js6/

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tracker1 3534 days ago
I've run node tasks that run in pretty low memory... when processing streams I'll often use the command-line option to expose gc, and force it after each item... runs very light that way.
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