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Consider using other JavaScript backends #5

Open zeozeozeo opened 7 months ago

zeozeozeo commented 7 months ago

V8 is a quite heavy dependency, it would make sense to explore other backends to run MathJax in:

QuickJS (bindings: rquickjs)
Duktape (bindings: ducc)
Boa (pure Rust)
Starlight (pure Rust)

gw31415 commented 7 months ago

Thanks for the idea. To deal with the matter, we need to do:

estimate the advantages/disadvantages of the 4 backends to select the best one as the default.
- I've selected V8 for now because I had a hunch that its JIT compilation is a good way to make fast the image multi-creation (without actual measure so it should be properly evaluated).
modularize and standardize the source code to switch the backend by feature.

This is a little hard work to deal with right now so this Issue may be a long.