Re: [webkit-dev] Thread naming policy in WebKit

2017-01-04 Thread Filip Pizlo
This sounds great to me! -Filip > On Jan 4, 2017, at 20:28, Yusuke SUZUKI wrote: > > Hi WebKittens! > > Recently, I started naming threads in Linux. And I also started naming > threads created by WTF::AutomaticThread. > Previously, all the thread is not named in Linux. It makes difficult to f

[webkit-dev] Thread naming policy in WebKit

2017-01-04 Thread Yusuke SUZUKI
Hi WebKittens! Recently, I started naming threads in Linux. And I also started naming threads created by WTF::AutomaticThread. Previously, all the thread is not named in Linux. It makes difficult to find problematic threads when using GDB in Linux. For example, if you run the JSC shell, all the th

Re: [webkit-dev] Reducing the use of EncodedJSValue and use JSValue directly instead.

2017-01-04 Thread Mark Lam
JF and I took a cursory look at this before, but I think it warrants a more rigorous check before we commit to this change. I’ll do the due diligence. > On Jan 3, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Geoffrey Garen wrote: > > EncodedJSValue was always just a work-around to convince the compiler to put > a JSVal