Migrating to Spider Monkey

MongoDB

#Releases

We’ve decided to switch from v8 and java to Spider Monkey for JavaScript.

A couple of main reasons

  • Full static binaries - no java dependancy
  • Easier to build since fewer dependencies
  • Spider Monkey 1.8.1 will be very fast (that includes trace monkey)

Hopefully we’ll be able to relase it in a couple of weeks.