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		phoboslab on March 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ejecta – A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas an... v8 also doesn't have an interpreter mode, just a compiler. On iOS you can't allocate writable+executable memory, so you can't use v8. As I mentioned in another thread, I currently have a toy project that implements most of the Canvas2D API in plain C. Maybe this will amount to something some day.

checker659 on March 28, 2014 [–]

AFAIK, you can turn off JIT compilation in v8, isn't that true?

sanxiyn on March 28, 2014 | [–]

No, you can't turn off JIT compilation in V8. V8 has no not-JIT execution engine.

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