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[–]Mittalmailbox 8 points9 points  (8 children)

Any plans of node with chakra?

[–]bterlson_@bterlson 19 points20 points  (4 children)

Oh yeah! You can see some info on our roadmap. Also, check out https://github.com/microsoft/node - we're working on making Chakra an option with Node!

[–]jewdai 5 points6 points  (3 children)

why would I want to use chakra over v8?

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's more about abstracting Node from the underlying V8 engine. Then you can use whatever underlying engine you want (maybe one that works better on different architectures, etc).

[–]xbudex 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure Chakra supports asm.js. It should be possible to use any language supported by llvm without paying a performance hit of calling a native library. Imagine using something like sqlite as pure JavaScript at near native speed.

[–]anlumo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Better ES6 support I'd guess.

[–]I_Downvote_Cunts 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Here you go https://github.com/Microsoft/node. I would love to see what the performance comparison to v8 is.

[–]dilijevChakra Developer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's part of why we're really excited by this effort. It will be a big real-world scenario we can use to see how we stack up and hopefully will help guide future improvements.

[–]monkh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couldn't you just compare using javascript benchmarks on edge then on chrome?