[Development] V8 on iOS

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 02/04/2012 08:06, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 2 de abril de 2012 13.02.08,
> aaron.kennedy at nokia.com wrote:
>> On 02/04/2012, at 2:21 PM, ext Ian wrote:
>>> Chris, Thanks for your answer. So, the low-down is that it's not
>>> (practically) possible to use QML without V8, and even if V8 did
>>> have a interpreter backend, it would be too slow to be useable?
>>> If so, I guess I'm going to have to find a way to get V8 working
>>> on iOS…
>>
>> V8 with an interpreter backend would probably be fine.  However, V8
>> doesn't have such a backend and writing one would be an enormous
>> effort - akin to one of their architecture ports.
>
> I estimated a 40k contribution to do that.
>
>> The key to getting V8 running on iOS will be executing writable
>> pages. Unless you can solve that - and in a way that keeps Apple
>> happy if you ever want to deploy such apps - everything else will
>> be in vein.
>
> I don't think Apple will ever allow that. I don't think Apple will
> allow executing any code that isn't loaded strictly from disk.

What do they use themselves for their own webkit JS engine?

-- 
.marius