Re: [boost] [Root Pointer] New Documentation

Subject: Re: [boost] [Root Pointer] New Documentation
From: Phil Bouchard (philippeb8_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-13 09:38:53

On 04/13/2016 08:38 AM, Glen Fernandes wrote:
> A colleague of mine who works on WebKit saw this thread in the Boost mailing
> list archive and pointed me to this thread on the WebKit mailing list
> archive:
>
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2016-March/028075.html
>
> Phil: If you want to have a real world user of your idea (which will also
> organically help you improve your design and implementation), an opportunity
> has already presented itself.
>
> You mentioned you wrote this with WebKit in mind because parts of it use GC.
> If you replace their GC with a solution that uses your root/block pointer,
> and show before/after benchmarks, it will lend credibility to you and your
> idea.

I know, the problem is it's not that simple to replace the GC in WebKit 
;)  I was considering DukTape as well because it is simpler than WebKit.

But can you imagine the benefits of having Javascript running 
deterministically?