Tiny javascript implementation?

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Dhaivat Pandya picture Dhaivat Pandya · Mar 22, 2011 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I need an extremely tiny implementation of (maybe a subset of?) Javascript. Code size and memory usage are extremely important (speed isn't in the question, it can run as slow as it likes). It must be written in C (not C++), and that too, ANSI C (GCC extensions are okay). If it runs on a VM would be best, because I will have to write a compiler for it. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Both of the responses I have seem good, except:

SpiderMonkey concentrates a lot on making it faster, I don't care if its fast at all.
Quad-Wheel sounds good, except the activity on it, and code comments are few (I will be porting this to another architecture if that helps).

So, any other responses would be great. Or, I could roll out my own simplified version of JS (but that doesn't sound fun at all)

Answer

Samuli Pahaoja picture Samuli Pahaoja · Feb 14, 2014

Duktape is written in C, with a focus on portability and compact footprint: http://duktape.org/

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