+v8-users Implementing under the flag LGTM. Low-risk and good to have implementation feedback for the committee.
Dmitry On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Yang Guo <yang...@google.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to implement some of the new Math.* functions proposed in the > ES6 draft in V8 following the V8 launch process. Specifically, this > includes: > - Math.sign > - Math.trunc > - Math.cosh > - Math.sinh > - Math.tanh > - Math.acosh > - Math.asinh > - Math.atanh > - Math.log1p > - Math.expm1 > > I'm NOT planning to include following functions for now: > - Math.hypot > - Math.fround > - Math.cbrt > - Math.log10 > - Math.log2 > > The functions for which I propose an implementation in V8, I feel that > they are straightforward to implement, are required often (sign and trunc) > or hard to polyfill efficiently (hyperbolic functions) or accurately (log1p > and expm1). Note that these properties do not apply for the math functions > I'm excluding for now. > > 1. They are part of the current ES6 draft. > > 2. The spec details are not expected to change. > > 3. They are implemented in Firefox 26+. > > 4. I'll add test cases. > > 5. The impact to V8's code base is limited. I'll introduce a > --harmony-math flag with a corresponding harmony-math.js file similar to > the harmony-string implementation. The initial implementation will not aim > for performance and therefore be mostly a bunch of functions added to > runtime.cc. > > WDYT? > > Regards, > > Yang > > > Yang Guo | Software Engineer | Google Germany GmbH | Dienerstr. 12, 80331 > München > Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg > Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Christine Elizabeth Flores > -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
