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V8PPC would also make Node (Node.js) available as an easy to use webserver.
as learned from Ethan Brown "Web development with Node & Express
I would love to see that on the Amiga

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Node: A New Kind of Web Server In a way, Node has a lot in common with other popular web servers, like Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS) or Apache. What is more interesting, though, is how it differs, so lets start there. Much like Express, Nodes approach to webservers is very minimal. Unlike IIS or Apache, which a person can spend many years mastering, Node is very easy to set up and configure. That is not to say that tuning Node servers for maximum performance in a production setting is a trivial matter: its just that the configuration options are simpler and more straightforward. Another major difference between Node and more traditional web servers is that Node is single threaded. At first blush, this may seem like a step backward. As it turns out, it is a stroke of genius. Single threading vastly simplifies the business of writing web apps, and if you need the performance of a multithreaded app, you can simply spin up more instances of Node, and you will effectively have the performance benefits of multithreading. The astute reader is probably thinking this sounds like smoke and mirrors. While the JavaScript engine that Node uses (Googles V8) does compile JavaScript to native machine code (much like C or C++), it does so transparently,1 so from the users perspective, it behaves like a purely interpreted language. Not having a separate compile step reduces maintenance and deployment hassles: all you have to do is update a JavaScript file, and your changes will automatically be available.