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Should main WebKit tree have support for ECMAScript Mobile Profile, etc.?

Cameron Zwarich asks on webkit-dev:

For some time now there has been a bug in Bugzilla about adding conditional support for ECMA Script Mobile Profile.

I am capable of reviewing the technical content of the patch, but I don’t know how the greater WebKit community feels about adding support for ESMP and related technologies. To what extent do we want support for them in the main WebKit tree?

There’s some discussion at WebKit bug 24114

WebKit Squirrelfish JIT on ARM

Some news from Gabor Loki on the webkit-dev list:

we are pleased to announce that the ARM port of JIT is finally released.

The port itself is developed from scratch, but we reused the ideas of x86 JIT. So we implemented property caches, stub functions, etc. in a similar way, but the code is optimized for ARM architectures.

We used Qt4 build environment for the development, but we feel that the other build platforms can be easily extended with this ARM port.

For a few more details, see the full text of Gabor’s posting.

To follow progress on this work, see WebKit bug 24986.