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Embedding Trireme in Android #141

Open darmie opened 8 years ago

darmie commented 8 years ago

Hello, I am working on a library that would implement NodeJS for Android and iOS application development. I am already using https://github.com/TooTallNate/NodObjC for iOS, Trireme seems like a competent candidate, but I would like to know if Trireme supports android and what are the consequences (performace wise) of using it in Android runtime.

gbrail commented 8 years ago

I've never tried it. I know that just getting Rhino to work on Android is a decent amount of work, but a user in the Rhino community was able to make that work (you can see this in a recent Rhino issue)

https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/211

In theory there's no reason why Trireme would not run on Android if Rhino worked on Android, but it would take some work and testing.

And as for performance -- we know that for CPU-intensive code Rhino is much slower than V8, and for more typical "web server" types of workloads Trireme is more like 1/3 to 1/2 the performance of standard Node. But it all depends. I would imagine that a large Node app running on Trireme Android would be pretty slow, but other apps might be just fine. It'd be great to see someone get it working though!

darmie commented 8 years ago

Alright. Thanks Greg.

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:33 Greg Brail notifications@github.com wrote:

I've never tried it. I know that just getting Rhino to work on Android is a decent amount of work, but a user in the Rhino community was able to make that work (you can see this in a recent Rhino issue)

mozilla/rhino#211 https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/211

In theory there's no reason why Trireme would not run on Android if Rhino worked on Android, but it would take some work and testing.

And as for performance -- we know that for CPU-intensive code Rhino is much slower than V8, and for more typical "web server" types of workloads Trireme is more like 1/3 to 1/2 the performance of standard Node. But it all depends. I would imagine that a large Node app running on Trireme Android would be pretty slow, but other apps might be just fine. It'd be great to see someone get it working though!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/apigee/trireme/issues/141#issuecomment-172062044.