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* @indutny's SealHandleScope patch (484bebc38319fc7c622478037922ad73b2edcbf9) has been cherry picked onto the top of V8 to make it compile. * There's some test breakage in contextify. * This was merged at the request of the TC. PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/1632
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V8 JavaScript Engine
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V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
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V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.
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V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source
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browser from Google.
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V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.
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V8 Project page: https://code.google.com/p/v8/
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Getting the Code
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=============
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Checkout [depot tools](http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools), and run
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fetch v8
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This will checkout V8 into the directory `v8` and fetch all of its dependencies.
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To stay up to date, run
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git pull origin
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gclient sync
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For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote
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configuration in `.git/config`:
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fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
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fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
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