joyent/node — pull request #7394 by bnoordhuis (2014-04-01 18:54:27+00:00)
Title: deps: upgrade v8 to 3.25.30

V8 3.26 is out so upgrade to 3.25, the version that ships with Chrome 35.

The rationale for upgrading is of course that node.js will benefit longer from upstream bug and security fixes. 3.24 hasn't been exactly mothballed but it hasn't seen any recent releases either.

This major version doesn't have many feature highlights (though the `--es_staging` flag is nice and perhaps something that can be enabled by default) but there have been a lot of performance tweaks. API breakage is minimal this time.

One notable change is that this is the first V8 release that supports arm64. I haven't enabled that because a) I don't have the hardware, and b) it requires reworking the openssl build.

I'll send cbb68fc upstream when this lands.

R=@indutny @tjfontaine