<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">I wonder what the downsides are to this approach. Footprint of Vector?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>It looks like the original change was motivated by shrinking Vector:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97268" class="">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97268</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sadly, it didn’t include any data on the observed benefit :(.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Geoff</div></body></html>