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JavaScriptCore is a framework developed by Apple Computer that provides a JavaScript engine for Mac OS X. JavaScriptCore and WebCore together make up Apple's WebKit application framework. JavaScriptCore is based on the combination of the KJS library (which is part of the KDE project) with the PCRE regular expression library.

Features

Powerful garbage collector
Developed using object-oriented C++ (SpiderMonkey uses C)
Highly portable. Only major dependencies are ICU and standard C/C++ libraries
NPRuntime support, bindings support
Goal is ECMAScript compliance and compatibility with major ECMAScript implementations (JavaScript 1.6, JScript)
Open Source Development as part of the WebKit project

External links

Webcore at developer.apple.com

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