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Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK

Posted by Unknown on from the shiny-new-crap dept.

hypnosec writes "Oracle has proposed a new project for OpenJDK — Nashorn, which aims to implement a high-performance yet lightweight JavaScript runtime that would run on the JVM natively. Nashorn will be headed by Jim Laskey, multi-language Lead at Oracle and the project will be sponsored by HotSpot group. The project proposes an implementation of JavaScript such that it can run standalone JavaScript applications via the JSR 223 APIs. Nashorn's design will enable it to take advantage of new JVM technologies like the MethodHandles and the InvokeDynamic APIs."

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  1. Oh good going . . . by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now this will just make describing the differences between java and javascript even more painful . . . :P

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  2. Backward compattibility by Razgorov+Prikazka · · Score: 1, Funny

    As long as it is compile once, debug everywhere I am fine with it... :-D

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  3. Re:Don't let them patent it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nashorn is German for Rhinocerus .. So we wonder is this just another Rhino fork??

  4. Re:node? by TopSpin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Node.js uses Google's V8 Javascript engine which is too fast for some applications. Also, it doesn't use enough memory, a problem the JVM is likely to correct. You can't expect much from an app that fails to allocate 900MB of virtual space and an 60MB working set on start-up.

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