[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 139847] JavaScriptCore deeply nested "call" performance issue

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139847

--- Comment #11 from Saam Barati <sbarati at apple.com> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > My guess is we're recursively emitting bytecode in a way that has
> > exponential blowup.
> 
> Yeah that's totally what's happening.  That's hilarious.
> 
> We should just have a back-off on that optimization.  Like, maintain a count
> of how deep in the "doubling" due to .call, .apply, or other jneq_ptr-based
> opts.  If more than K deep then don't do the optimization.
> 
> Probably the most optimal way to do it would be upside down: don't do the
> optimization if there are more than K people below you in the tree who want
> to do it, so that the optimization kicks in for the leaves of that gross
> call tree.

Yeah this sounds reasonable to me.

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