Hello,
I would like to run some tests on v8 with and without JIT to compare performances. I know JIT will improve my average speed performance, but it would be nice for me to have some actual more detailed tests results as I want to work with mobile platforms.
I haven't found how to enable or disable JIT like it exists on Squirrelfish (cf. ENABLE_JIT in JavaScriptCore/wtf/Platform.h).
Does somebody knows how to do that with v8?
Thanks.
Alexandre
For those who may be interested I got the following answer from Søren Gjesse on v8-users google groups.
Hi, It is not possible to disable dynamically generated code in V8. Unlike other JavaScript engines V8 does not have an interpreter mode - it always generates native code.
One exception is the RegExp engine which have an interpreter and native code version. The compile time define V8_NATIVE_REGEXP enables generating native code for RegExp processing.
Regards, Søren
On a 32 bit little endian platform you can build with the ARM simulator. This is a testing feature and performance will be terrible, but it does work and involves no direct execution of JITed code. Use the --simulator=arm option on the scons or test.py command line.