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by ptx 17 days ago
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?

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> 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

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