If we move to js17, we can reintroduce a periodic GC without fear of a deadlock, which will keep memory usage low. If we branch and make two releases, we have no way to do that, shy of conditional compilation.
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 17:24 +1100, Tim wrote: > > I believe the plan is (from discussions with walters) to branch gjs for > the 3.8 release. So essentially there would be two gjs versions at > > release, one for the old spidermonkey and one for the new spidermonkey. > > Yeah; also, after 3.10 development opens, immediately switch the branch > to track js17. And we should be helping Mozilla get the release out the > door. > > > It would then be up to distro's to choose which version they use. > > Right. This seems pretty low risk to me, as long as we're fairly > confident of the js17 future. > > > > -- Jasper
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