On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Garrett Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The resulting function would be indistinguishable. The performance
> would be potentially faster (no parsing "" to create a Function).
> Firefox is very slow with Function constructor.
>
> var slow = Function();
> var fast = function(){};Garrett, this post is really baffling. :) What makes you think the ES3 specification is to blame for the slowness you're seeing? For all I know, our implementation pre-dates the spec. ;-) If it's a problem that "Firefox is very slow", I heartily encourage you to file a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org. Patches are always welcome. SpiderMonkey's Function constructor is implemented at: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a5491c33992e/js/src/jsfun.cpp#l1796 -j _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
