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A more useful starting point for comparison might be the projects' respective stated goals. This is the first one listed for QuickJS:

Small and easily embeddable: just a few C files, no external dependency

Whereas v8's project description opens with:

V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome [...]

The stuff in the video is definitely super interesting but much of it is about how design goals in v8 are met.




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