[webkit-dev] RuntimeEnabledFeatures for JSC (was RE: Getting at Settings object from WorkerContext)

Darin Fisher darin at chromium.org
Thu Jan 6 13:32:27 PST 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Joe Mason wrote:
>
> > I took a look at CodeGeneratorJS.pm to see how hard it would be to port
> this over. I have no idea where to start…  The structure of
> CodeGeneratorJS.pm and CodeGeneratorV8.pm seem quite different. This also
> seems like a lot of work to do just to enable/disable one feature, but I
> guess if there’s no framework for enabling/disabling JS features in JSC at
> all then it’s necessary.
>
> I’m sad that the V8 code generator script diverged so much from the
> original. It would be great if they were kept closer. I have refactored them
> to become more similar and even share code whenever I had to modify both,
> such as when making changes to [Reflect].
>
> > Is there wide agreement that porting the RuntimeEnabledFeatures to JSC is
> a good idea?
>
> I think it would probably be good. Not sure why the person who did it
> originally did it V8-only.
>
>
IIRC, there was not much interest from JSC-using ports
for RuntimeEnabledFeatures.

-Darin
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