Simon Willison on Nostr: The architecture is really interesting: they chose to compile V8 with a thin ...
The architecture is really interesting: they chose to compile V8 with a thin additional C++ layer that they wrote to expose a ctypes-friendly API, then have their Python library code access it through ctypes
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