Re: [JS-internals] Documenting long-term plans that aren't being directly/actively/specifically worked on

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Peterson
On 2/3/14, 6:16 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: There's a bunch of tribal knowledge among JS hackers of where we want the engine to go, but we just haven't quite yet taken it. Sometimes that info's useful/relevant to design of present-day patches or approaches. It would be useful to have that documented

[JS-internals] Documenting long-term plans that aren't being directly/actively/specifically worked on

2014-02-03 Thread Jeff Walden
There's a bunch of tribal knowledge among JS hackers of where we want the engine to go, but we just haven't quite yet taken it. Sometimes that info's useful/relevant to design of present-day patches or approaches. It would be useful to have that documented somewhere so that people are more on

[JS-internals] SpiderMonkey status report for Firefox 29

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Peterson
Some highlights from the Spidermonkey team's work for Firefox 29 (December 10 – February 3): • Exact Rooting landed in Firefox 29! This is a big change to Firefox's memory management, but it should not have much performance impact. Exact Rooting is a precursor for Generational GC (GGC), which

Re: [JS-internals] Taint analysis in SpiderMonkey

2014-02-03 Thread Nicolas B. Pierron
Hi Stéphanie, Thanks for looking again into this, On 02/03/2014 02:08 AM, Stéphanie Ouillon wrote: Ivan forwarded me the script Jim wrote to benchmark the impact of tainting on SpiderMonkey (see attachments, I fixed bits in the patch to apply it on recent mozilla-central code). I look at the

Re: [JS-internals] Taint analysis in SpiderMonkey

2014-02-03 Thread Stéphanie Ouillon
Yeah :/ I put everything there: https://gist.github.com/arroway/617c534a7e4cb24adeab On 02/03/2014 12:18 PM, David Bruant wrote: > Le 03/02/2014 12:06, Stéphanie Ouillon a écrit : >> With attachments > Attachements don't go through mailing-lists. At least, I didn't find one > in your email. Post i

Re: [JS-internals] Taint analysis in SpiderMonkey

2014-02-03 Thread David Bruant
Le 03/02/2014 12:06, Stéphanie Ouillon a écrit : With attachments Attachements don't go through mailing-lists. At least, I didn't find one in your email. Post in a gist or github pages or dropbox or things like that. David On 02/03/2014 11:08 AM, Stéphanie Ouillon wrote: Hello, Ivan forw

Re: [JS-internals] Taint analysis in SpiderMonkey

2014-02-03 Thread Stéphanie Ouillon
With attachments On 02/03/2014 11:08 AM, Stéphanie Ouillon wrote: > Hello, > > Ivan forwarded me the script Jim wrote to benchmark the impact of > tainting on SpiderMonkey (see attachments, I fixed bits in the patch to > apply it on recent mozilla-central code). > I ran the tests several times (p

Re: [JS-internals] Taint analysis in SpiderMonkey

2014-02-03 Thread Stéphanie Ouillon
Hello, Ivan forwarded me the script Jim wrote to benchmark the impact of tainting on SpiderMonkey (see attachments, I fixed bits in the patch to apply it on recent mozilla-central code). I ran the tests several times (performance mode, in console) on commits 4b7f81db2646 9bca7390eb1f 0fd024e3ef80