Sorry to bump in, but I am interested if those are good beginner bugs, would
that be OK?

Thanks,
Ting

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kannan Vijayan" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:44:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [JS-internals] 'in' operator is slow?
> 
> The simple reason is that we don't optimize this case in Ion yet.
> 
> Looking at IonBuilder's handling of JSOP_IN, it optimizes the case where
> the property being checked for is a dense element and the object is
> well-known, but it doesn't optimize property checks.
> 
> The "full treatment" of this op would include the following:
> 
> 1. Optimize property checks using Type-Inference.  This will only work
> for definite properties.
> 2. Optimize property checks using Baseline IC stubs, inlining shape
> guards into the main jitcode body.
> 3. Optimize property checks using Ion ICs.
> 
> These are, in fact, really good beginner bugs.  Most of the logic here
> will be equivalent to the GetProp implementations, except instead of
> returning the value from the property slot, it will return true/false..
> so there's a good existing reference for how to implement this.
> 
> Kannan
> 
> 
> On 2014-07-30, 9:25 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The following jsperf microbenchmark suggests that |p in o| is much
> > slower than |o.p !== undefined|: http://jsperf.com/in-vs-not-undefined
> >
> > Can someone explain why?
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13866442/why-is-javascripts-in-operator-consistently-slower-than-strict-member-compari
> > discusses this, but I'm not entirely convinced. Maybe the ToString()
> > required for 'in' explains it?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Nick
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