Uses "data-oriented design", so it's likely striving to be faster than other non-JIT runtimes by being more cache-friendly.
Still at early stages, quite incomplete, not nearly ready for real use, AFAICT.
Show HN thread a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168166
> Nova is a JavaScript (and eventually WebAssembly) engine written in Rust.
Any particular reason against using Cranelift for WASM?
More ways for Servo to be all-Rust, OK!
Very interesting.
Wondering how hard it is to embed / vendor it into other projects. In the past we relied on duktape especially because how easy it is to just copy one .c file into your project and have it integrated there. It's one of the best features of duktape that other JS engines couldn't yet beat. Do you have plans to maybe provide a collapsed version of nova that is especially easy for embedding into third party projects?
How does Nova compare to Boa? Regardless it’s great to see new js engines popping up
Cache-friendly is nice, but honestly, are we at a point where that's the main bottleneck for most JS apps? Feels like every new runtime promises speed. What's the one thing Nova's gonna do that'll make everyone actually sit up and pay attention, beyond just benchmarks?
OP, since you're here in the comments can you talk about the binary and memory size and sandboxing support? Ability to import and export functions/variables across runtime boundaries? Is this a feasible replacement for Lua scripting in a rust application?
Wow, 70% is seriously impressive.
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Hi, main developer of Nova here if you want to ask any questions! I'm at a choir event for the rest of the week though, so my answers may tarry a bit.