Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/26/13 4:35 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: How much is this a JS problem compared to a Gecko one? IIRC, almost everywhere outside of JS just crashes if it can't allocate memory. It depends. Almost everywhere outside JS crashes on failure of _small_ allocations. Large allocations (esp ones w

Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Benjamin Peterson
How much is this a JS problem compared to a Gecko one? IIRC, almost everywhere outside of JS just crashes if it can't allocate memory. 2013/9/26 Gregor Wagner : > I don't know if the roadmap is the right place for this but I would also love > to see > some effort dealing with OOM situations. In t

Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 9/26/13 4:27 PM, Gregor Wagner wrote: I don't know what the right approach is. Maybe a testing framework or static analysis for proper OOM error propagation but we will see these kinds of problems more often once people start writing apps with higher memory requirements for b2g. Will those

Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Gregor Wagner wrote: > I don't know if the roadmap is the right place for this but I would also love > to see > some effort dealing with OOM situations. > > I don't know what the right approach is. Maybe a testing framework or static > analysis for > proper OOM e

Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Gregor Wagner
I don't know if the roadmap is the right place for this but I would also love to see some effort dealing with OOM situations. In the desktop world we practically never hit this case but for b2g we have to rely on proper OOM handling. We already fixed a few bugs where we allocate too much memory d

Re: [JS-internals] Feedback on SpiderMonkey roadmap?

2013-09-26 Thread Steve Fink
On 09/24/2013 06:20 PM, Chris Peterson wrote: > After collecting a list of the active SpiderMonkey projects [1], Naveed > asked me to present the projects on a roadmap for the next four > quarters. Here is a rough draft: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Cpeterson/Roadmap#Roadmap > > * Are any im