[dvh]

What's the benefits over v8?

[theMackabu]

its ~8mb including the entire runtime and node-compat work. pretty simple to embed anywhere as well

[ptx]

And what are the tradesoffs?

How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor?

[theMackabu]

> How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor?

Much less complex tiers of jit, no unicode ICU, and no startup js snapshot

[hippietrail]

Does it roll its own Unicode solution without ICU, or does it forgo Unicode? Or somewhere in between?