QuickJS: CouchDB’s new JavaScript engine

QuickJS is the new JavaScript engine for CouchDB that’s faster and smaller than SpiderMonkey. See it in action and learn how to benchmark with Ninette Adhikari, CouchDB dev at Neighbourhoodie Software. All recordings from the Oct ’24 edition of the Neighbourhoodie CouchDB Meetup: https://vi.to/hubs/couchdb-berlin Benchmark script & answers to questions from the Meetup: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/11/13/your-questions-answered More on QuickJS +: CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/09/23/couchdb-3-4-0-feature-quickjs 00:00 Intro 01:00 Why QuickJS? 04:08 Performance 06:19 Update config to use QuickJS 08:19 Demo 11:46 Upgrading Find out more at: https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://couchdb.apache.org https://neighbourhood.ie/blog?pk_campaign=youtube&pk_kwd=quickjs We are Neighbourhoodie, a software development and consulting company in Berlin. We specialise in offline-capable software, CouchDB and PouchDB, and also help develop and maintain these two projects.