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RHEL 9 Support for CouchDB #4154

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konrad-ohms opened this issue Aug 23, 2022 · 20 comments
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RHEL 9 Support for CouchDB #4154

konrad-ohms opened this issue Aug 23, 2022 · 20 comments

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@konrad-ohms
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Summary

CouchDB v3.2.2 does not provide RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 at the moment, https://docs.couchdb.org/en/3.2.2/install/unix.html does not list RHEL 9 as supported as well. The couchdb.repo file points to https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/couchdb-rpm which only has el7 and el8.

Desired Behaviour

I would appreciate having RPM based precompiled packages for RHEL 9 hosts / ubi9-minimal container (released in May 2022).

Possible Solution

Compile on an additional OS during the project build, potentially new Jenkins workers are required (probably CentOS Stream 9 would work as well) or a build inside a container (I guess registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi might work).

Additional context

I am building a custom CouchDB image based on ubi8-minimal and are planning to upgrade my other projects to ubi9-minimal soon.
CouchDB as of now would fail to install and I would like to have a common base os across my services.
Also, CouchDB on ubi8-minimal gets a lot of Twistlock findings which are not fixed by Red Hat any more (I can provide a scan if necessary).

@konrad-ohms
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Not sure if you are still the right contact for that matter, but tagging @wohali as you kindly helped me out last time as well (thanks for that 🙂)
(#2231)

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nickva commented Aug 23, 2022

We use Rocky Linux for the RHEL 8 "clone" as we don't have access to RHEL paid licenses. It looks like there is a Rocky Linux 9 so we'll try to use that as the RHEL 9 "clone" base https://rockylinux.org/download.

Chances are it will happen for 3.3 only and not for 3.2.x series.

@konrad-ohms
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Thanks Nick,
that sounds good to me, having builds for CouchDB v3.x on a RHEL 9 compatible OS should be sufficient in order to package it up for ubi8-minimal. Is there an rough ETA for CouchDB v3.3 yet?

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nickva commented Aug 27, 2022

Looking at adding an Rockylinux 9 base image in https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg it looks like RHEL 9 and its clones do not include the mozjs package(Spidermonkey i.e. our Javascript engine) any longer.

Related issue at RedHat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958111

That would complicate and slow down supporting RHEL 9 clones as it seems we'd have to build and maintain our own mozjs RPM. There is a chance EPEL 9 might have it (but so far haven't found it there) or maybe we can find another RPM from Fedora or other RPM based distros which somehow are compatible with RHEL 9 clones.

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Okay, I see, that is unfortunate 😕
I guess the RHEL8 rpm will no longer work on RHEL9?

@domstorey
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Is there any outlook here for when couch will be supported on RHEL 9? We'd also like to move to ubi9 minimal here.

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nickva commented Nov 17, 2022

Any chance mozjs91 or other version made their way into EPEL repos? Perhaps we can advise users to use that.

We could be slightly sneaky and depend on polkit and use its private moz78 instance, but that sound like a hack.

Otherwise, we'd have to bundle mozjs just for RHEL 9 (and its clones) and then maintain security patches for it. It might be the we go with eventually, but it's hard to justify spending time it currently.

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nickva commented Nov 17, 2022

Fedora 35 version is probably a good bet

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nickva commented Nov 18, 2022

Since I mentioned polikit above here what I tried:

% docker run -it rockylinux/rockylinux:9

# yum install polkit-libs -y

# rpm -ql polkit-libs | grep mozjs
/usr/lib64/polkit-1/libmozjs-78.so

So mozjs78 is available there. Too much of a hack for the time being?

Installing mozjs91 from F35 seems to work as well:

% docker run -it rockylinux/rockylinux:9

# yum install wget

# wget https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/mozjs91/91.2.0/1.fc35/x86_64/mozjs91-91.2.0-1.fc35.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -i ./mozjs91-91.2.0-1.fc35.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -ql mozjs91
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/18c2125dbd7527a2f5423f2452df0ff29d9e2f
/usr/lib64/libmozjs-91.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmozjs-91.so.0.0.0
...

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domstorey commented Nov 21, 2022

With that dependency installed should we be able to build the couch binaries do you think on the ubi9 base? I noticed that we use runit too, https://packagecloud.io/imeyer/runit?page=2 to build and I couldnt get that too work on ubi9 either :-(

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nickva commented Nov 21, 2022

ubi9 seems to work as far as installing and resolving dependencies at least:

% docker pull redhat/ubi9
# yum install wget ...
# ldd /usr/lib64/libmozjs-91.so.0
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffa9778000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f068cb09000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f068ca2e000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f068c807000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f068c7ec000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f068c5e3000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f068e79e000)

Not sure about runit. I guess we could use any other daemon supervisor thing instead.

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nickva commented Nov 21, 2022

One strange thing I noticed is that the above mozj91 doesn't seem to link to libicu. It turns out it was an earlier mozjs 91.2.0 version, the later versions started linking against it and requiring libicu

# wget https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/mozjs91/91.13.0/1.fc35/x86_64/mozjs91-91.13.0-1.fc35.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -i mozjs91-91.13.0-1.fc35.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
	libicui18n.so.69()(64bit) is needed by mozjs91-91.13.0-1.fc35.x86_64
	libicuuc.so.69()(64bit) is needed by mozjs91-91.13.0-1.fc35.x86_64

So if we want to stay current, we are back to building it ourselves and continuously maintaining the build or relying on the hidden polkit libmozjs-78.so version from polkit-libs.

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mmm yes, not perfect. Too many hacks will make it difficult next time too and will complicate keeping security updates current on all the dependencies if we are pinned..

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nickva commented Nov 22, 2022

Agree it's a hack. I think we'll have to return to building it ourselves like we did previously: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/tree/main/js

Another option is to embed a smaller JS execution engine like QuickJS so we can just vendor it in.

nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 16, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 16, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 16, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Looks like 3x faster than SM 1.8.5 and 4x faster than SM 91.

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 16, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 19, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 20, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

For now to make it easy to experiment added it in as a JS "version" enabled at
compile time.

```
./configure --dev --spidermonkey-version quickjs && make
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

QuickJS Patches:
 * Disable workers. (Brings in pthread, etc)
 * Enable spidermonkey 1.8.5 function expression mode
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 3x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 4x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.
nickva added a commit to nickva/couchdb that referenced this issue Mar 31, 2023
https://bellard.org/quickjs
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/third_party/quickjs/

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see apache#4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   apache#4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST trasform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allow granular time (reduction) trackign if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microsecond, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

Only tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 14, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

Tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 24, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

Tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 26, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Mar 27, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 16, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 23, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 25, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 1, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 1, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 6, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 10, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 10, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 11, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 12, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 12, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 12, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 12, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 13, 2024
https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 15, 2024
Some benefits over Mozilla Spidermonkey:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already [1].

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so [2].

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448

[1] #4154
[2] #4305
nickva added a commit that referenced this issue May 15, 2024
Some benefits over Mozilla Spidermonkey:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already [1].

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so [2].

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

It's also possible to build without Spidermonkey support completely by using:
```
./configure --disable-spidermonkey
```

Issue: #4448

[1] #4154
[2] #4305
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