Re: new spidermonkey in 3.8?

2013-03-10 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
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 wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 17:24 +

Re: new spidermonkey in 3.8?

2013-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
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

Re: new spidermonkey in 3.8?

2013-03-09 Thread Tim
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. It would then be up to distro's to choose which version they use. The improvements th

new spidermonkey in 3.8?

2013-03-09 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi! About memory leaks in gnome-shell, Jasper just wrote in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642652#c145, This is partially a SpiderMonkey bug. If all the dates align just right, we may be able to fix this for 3.8. This would happen by updating to js188, the appropriate changes to