[Development] Qt 5.9's new garbage collector documentation? + root_ptr

Phil Bouchard philippeb8 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 14:33:47 CEST 2017


Sérgio Martins <iamsergio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyway I'm deviating from QNodePtr but I just don't understand the hype
>> about JIT when it doesn't seem it has been compared to a Javascript compiler
>> because none exists up to now.
> 
> That's precisely the biggest advantage of JIT: It exists, while js2cpp
> doesn't (or at least in a usable form for us).

I'm working on it; it shouldn't take too long.

> The problem is that JavaScript is a "do whatever you want" type of
> language, which doesn't translate well to C++.

The net speed makes all the difference between who gets chosen amongst Qt /
Blink / WebKit / WPE.




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