rhino vs spidermonkey

Question

I noticed ubuntu 10.04 removed the spidermonkey package. Rhino looks like it\'s still there though. What are the differences between rhino and spidermonkey (besides what languag

Answer 1

Based on the languages they have been developed, developer needs explicitly handle memory using spidermonkey. As rhino has been developed in java which includes automatic garbage collection and JVM's [ Java Virtual Machine ] have been tuned for faster execution than c or c++ from Java 1.6 Version.