V8 Release v8.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: V8 Release v8.0

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Post by Leszek » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 4:41 PM UTC

est31 wrote: post #6

sidpatil wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> However, it doesn't render well in Firefox: it's moved to the right by a lot. Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm on 71.0 and it looks okay to me. (It's consistent with the IE11 that I have access to.)

I'm using 71.0 on Linux. And actually I misspelled: it's moved to the left not the right. I've deactivated the ad blocker on the site. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ajqXZoI.png

Yeah, sorry about that, it's fixed now.

Re: V8 Release v8.0

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Post by est31 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 8:03 PM UTC

Leszek wrote: post #11

est31 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using 71.0 on Linux. And actually I misspelled: it's moved to the left not the right. I've deactivated the ad blocker on the site. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ajqXZoI.png

Yeah, sorry about that, it's fixed now.

Thank you!

Re: V8 Release v8.0

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Post by keyle » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 12:14 AM UTC

I'm so excited for optional chaining in JS. It's?.going?.to?.be?.so?.much?.better #nosarcasm

Re: V8 Release v8.0

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #7

coldlestat wrote: post #2

| Pointer compression saves an average of 40% of memory. This is really awesome. Can't wait it to be shipped everywhere.

I wonder if this is specific to v8 or could SpiderMonkey and JavascriptCore could benefits from the same optimisation technique.

I believe JVMs were the first to use pointer-compression.

A good summary is at https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/

Also worth reading: https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/35gb-heap-less-32gb-j...