SpiderNode, V8Monkey, and You

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V8Monkey: V8 API for SpiderMonkey wraps SpiderMonkey so Node can run on it; SpiderNode: a Node clone that uses V8Monkey and it works. They ported Node buffers around typed arrays, rewrote buffer internals for API mismatch, and demoed generator-based task.js servers with no transpiler. Benchmarks show mixed GC tradeoffs, some workloads competitive; empty Node chat process sits at ~11–12 MB and current builds still have memory leaks. Build is configure and make.

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1. 0:00SpiderNode and V8Monkey intro
2. 3:04Why build V8Monkey and SpiderNode
3. 6:13Demo with task.js
4. 8:45Acknowledgments
5. 9:27E4X and experimental features
6. 10:30Performance vs V8 in Node.js
7. 12:12SpiderNode and Harmony features
8. 12:54Debugging and memory profiling
9. 13:56Binary data handling
10. 15:19API translation challenges
11. 16:46Memory leaks in SpiderNode
12. 17:48String performance
13. 19:12Generator functions
14. 19:55Better benchmarks needed
15. 20:39Building SpiderNode
16. 22:44Q&A

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