CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey

Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series brings a number of performance improvements, QuickJS as an alternative to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and other enhancements...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CouchDB-3.4.1-Released

[skeevy420]

Do we really need a database to track which couches Vance has and hasn't had relations with?

[edxposed]

Any JS engine that brags about performance is like a clown compared to the V8.

[ssokolow]

Any JS engine that brags about performance is like a clown compared to the V8.

Not necessarily. I'm sure it's possible to implement JS engines that are faster than V8 at the cost of not being able to be spec-compliant... similar to how RPython can be compiled to machine code at the cost of imposing restrictions on what is allowed valid code.

(eg. In RPython, IIRC, you can't reassign a variable to a new data type after initial assignment.)

[microcode]

Do we really need a database to track which couches Vance has and hasn't had relations with?

y'all really can't meme can you 😂

[QwertyChouskie]

Any JS engine that brags about performance is like a clown compared to the V8.

My understanding is that QuickJS is very lightweight/low-overhead (~1MiB compiled vs almost 100MiB for V8), which makes it very fast for certain types of workloads, but not good as e.g. a general-purpose runtime for web browsers.

[SteamPunker]

Do we really need a database to track which couches Vance has and hasn't had relations with?

Unfortunately for him, CouchDB is not a relational database 😁

[Quackdoc]

My understanding is that QuickJS is very lightweight/low-overhead (~1MiB compiled vs almost 100MiB for V8), which makes it very fast for certain types of workloads, but not good as e.g. a general-purpose runtime for web browsers.

yeah that was my understanding too, Even as, I guess I could be called a mozilla hater now, I see this being great for couchdb, but I wouldn't expect anything like tauri to swap to it any time soon.

[GrimR3]

AWS is working on LLRT that uses QuickJS for better lambda coldstarts and duration than NodeJS(V8)