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honk.foo
new Porffor website out now! porffor.dev
Screenshot of https://porffor.dev
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
honk.foo
Porffor compiling to Wasm is now faster than QuickJS interpreting natively for an older V8 benchmark!
~/porffor$ qjs bench/richards.js # quickjs, lower is better 384 ~/porffor$ ./porf bench/richards.js # new porffor, lower is better 303 ~/porffor$ git stash -q ~/porffor$ ./porf bench/richards.js # old porffor, lower is better 420
February 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
honk.foo
Porffor officially goes alpha on August 11th with an in-person in San Francisco! It brings self-hosting and a complete rewrite, plus more: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/
Porffor goes alpha August 11th
A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!
honk.foo
July 27, 2026 at 7:59 AM
honk.foo
porffor.dev is now served by a Porffor-compiled TS native binary!
A screenshot of porffor.dev: new! This page is served by a Porffor-compiled TS binary! [live stats] memory 4.0mb | binary 287kb | requests 210 | uptime 3h 21m
April 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
honk.foo
enjoy tangled.org/honk.foo/por...
July 19, 2026 at 1:45 AM
honk.foo
Porffor alpha is out! It represents a new phase of the project where real-world dependencies are beginning to work and Node compatibility is the main bottleneck. To be clear, it still likely won't work with your app yet, but it is much closer than before. Recap here: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/
Porffor goes alpha August 11th
A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!
honk.foo
August 25, 2026 at 9:49 AM
honk.foo
hmm
Screenshot of a terminal: honk@gosling porffor % bat hello.js console.log('hello world!') honk@gosling porffor % node runtime/index.js native hello.js foo [138ms] compiled hello.js -> foo (33.5KB) honk@gosling porffor % mv foo porf_on_node honk@gosling porffor % /tmp/selfhost native hello.js foo > /dev/null honk@gosling porffor % mv foo porf_on_porf honk@gosling porffor % sha256sum porf_on* 50f96a9114b76d3e556a3e1ab73d32d05cca499801b86d61efcf283c5bbcaaee porf_on_node 50f96a9114b76d3e556a3e1ab73d32d05cca499801b86d61efcf283c5bbcaaee porf_on_porf
May 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM
honk.foo
enjoy 2 new blog posts!

- Porffor now has closures: surprisingly annoying for a compiler. goose.icu/porffor-clos...

- Profile-guided dead code elimination: a novel approach for DCE in dynamic languages. goose.icu/profile-guid...
A screenshot of https://goose.icu/porffor-closures/ A screenshot of https://goose.icu/profile-guided-dce/
May 8, 2026 at 8:08 AM
honk.foo
nevermind, porffor.dev containers use ~600kb of memory now 🤯
A screenshot of a graph showing the memory usage of 2 replicas of porffor.dev over a short time period, it is flat. porffor-dev 1 is using 590 KiB and porffor-dev 2 is using 620 KiB
May 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
honk.foo
My ahead-of-time JS engine Porffor eliminates JS cold starts on AWS Lambda. 12x faster and 2x cheaper than managed Node. Still very early but these results should speak for themselves :)

goose.icu/lambda/
A graph of Porffor cold starts. P50: 16.3ms, P90: 27.5ms, P99: 41.1ms.
August 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
honk.foo
Porffor now passes over 60% of Test262, thanks to a new custom regex engine!
Porffor's graph of Test262 passing over time, currently at 60.30%
July 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
bsbicymru.bsky.social
Tormaen porffor (Saxifraga oppositifolia) yng Nghwm Idwal heddiw. Hyfryd! / beautiful Purple saxifrage in Cwm Idwal today. #Eryri #Saxifraga
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
honk.foo
Checking if a value is "fully" truthy (like !!foo) is now ~2x as fast as before in Porffor
Screenshot of a terminal: ~/porffor$ ./porf bench/truthy.js # old, lower is better 4734 ~/porffor$ git stash pop -q ~/porffor$ ./porf bench/truthy.js # new, lower is better 2419
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
golwg.360.cymru
Plac Porffor Cymru newydd yn cydnabod dewrder gwraig ginio o Aberfan yn y drychineb

Bydd y Plac Porffor yn cael ei ddadorchuddio ar wal y fynwent yn Aberfan ddydd Gwener Hydref 30, chwe degawd ar ôl i’r trychineb ddigwydd

✍️ Rhiannon Heledd Williams
Plac Porffor Cymru newydd yn cydnabod dewrder gwraig ginio o Aberfan yn y drychineb
Bydd y Plac Porffor yn cael ei ddadorchuddio ar wal y fynwent yn Aberfan ddydd Gwener Hydref 30, chwe degawd ar ôl i’r trychineb ddigwydd
golwg.360.cymru
October 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
honk.foo
Porffor's goals for January: A more compliant and stable compiler, while starting foundations for large long-term optimizations.

goose.icu/porffor-goal...
January 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
43081j.com
just had a great catch up with @goose.icu on porffor progress. keep an eye on this project 👀 there's so many perf gains to be had from it once it is stable
GitHub - CanadaHonk/porffor: A from-scratch experimental AOT JS engine, written in JS
A from-scratch experimental AOT JS engine, written in JS - CanadaHonk/porffor
github.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
joyeecheung.bsky.social
@goose.icu showing some benchmark numbers at @webengineshackfest.org
Benchmark numbers of deno, bun and porffor logging hi
June 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
rich-harris.dev
2025 will be the year of porffor www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNV6...
December 3, 2024 at 11:43 PM
honk.foo
Porffor now passes over 59% of Test262!
Screenshot of a terminal showing: ~/porffor$ node test262 test: 29837/50424 passed - 59.17% (+0.45) (14 to go until 59.2%, 417 to go until 60%) 29837 7425 12893 🧪 50424 | 🤠 29837 (+227) | ❌ 7425 (-71) | 💀 12878 (-157) | 📝 0 | ⏰ 15 (+1) | 🏗️ 7 | 💥 262
May 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
honk.foo
one week of uptime 🥹
A screenshot of porffor.dev showing "This page is served by a Porffor-compiled TS binary! ... uptime 1w 11h"
May 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
honk.foo
Porffor is now self-hosted, meaning it compiles itself with itself! This is made possible by Porffor's new rewrite, reducing its lines of code by >50% and making C output up to 5x more efficient! Here you can see the stats before and after the rewrite for Porffor itself:
Porffor selfhost rewrite graphs, before vs after. bundle lines 40.4K→24.7K (1.6x smaller) bundle size 2.4MB→2.0MB (1.2x smaller) C lines 1.6M→289.0K (5.5x smaller) C size 70.4MB→12.3MB (5.7x smaller) debug compile time 5.0s→1.2s (4.1x faster) release compile time 143.2s→37.1s (3.9x faster) debug binary size 52.4MB→13.6MB (3.8x smaller) release binary size 14.1MB→4.6MB (3.1x smaller).
July 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
wes.dev
This is very exciting!
Porffor goes alpha August 11th
A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!
honk.foo
July 22, 2026 at 9:41 AM
e18e.dev
come join us tomorrow on the live stream where we'll be chatting to Oliver about porffor! 🎉
thealexlichter.com Alexander Lichter @thealexlichter.com · Jul 28
Summer break is over: The @e18e.dev & friends show is coming back next week 🎉

And we got nobody else than the one and only @honk.foo
talking about Porforr and how a future for natively compiled JavaScript could look like!

Swing by at 7pm CEST / 1pm EDT on August 4th 👌

youtube.com/live/L8Edgas...
e18e & friends E004 - Oliver Medhurst
What if you could compile JavaScript to Native but ahead of time? W...
youtube.com
August 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
honk.foo
I rewrote Porffor's object implementation completely; it is now much faster and makes Wasm binaries 2-5x smaller than before when using objects!

Porffor's current worst benchmark gets 30% faster with >4x smaller Wasm; almost on par with QuickJS with only ~1 month of work!

goose.icu/porffor-obje...
Porffor: Objects v2
Porffor's rewritten object implementation is now much faster and produces 2-5x smaller Wasm binaries when using objects!
goose.icu
February 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
honk.foo
Porffor's Wasm is now faster than *native* Node JITless at richards.js, an old V8 benchmark!

new improvement is thanks to a new compiler feature and a minor object rewrite I'll post about this weekend. I still have ideas which can make this hopefully almost 2x faster this month!
~/porffor$ node bench/avg.js 10 "node --jitless bench/richards.js" 313 ~/porffor$ node bench/avg.js 10 "./porf bench/richards.js" 272
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM