its ~8mb including the entire runtime and node-compat work. pretty simple to embed anywhere as well

And what are the tradesoffs?

How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor?

> How is it so much smaller than V8 while also apparently including a package manager, a web server, a TypeScript compiler and a hypervisor?

Much less complex tiers of jit, no unicode ICU, and no startup js snapshot

Does it roll its own Unicode solution without ICU, or does it forgo Unicode? Or somewhere in between?