ChowJS

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ChowJS - an AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles (mp2.dk)

Features

• AOT : Ahead-Of-Time
• Targets game consoles: develop a game in JavaScript, then compile it ahead of time and distribute it together with the runtime
  • Based on QuickJS
  • Supports modern JS up to ES2020
  • Supports PC, Mobile, Console
  • Provides a subset of the NW.js runtime environment
  • The AOT compiler uses SSA IR to generate fast machine code
  • Implements inline caching
  • Uses a reference-counting GC
• 3.23x faster than the V8 interpreter
  • What ran at under 30FPS on V8 can now reach 60FPS
• The only other known production-grade AOT engine so far is Hermes, developed by Facebook
  • It is for ReactNative and generates ByteCode, not machine code

See also

• AOT
• JavaScript
• QuickJS

Favorite site

• chowjs web site