[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 171630] [JSC] Test stringimpl-to-jsstring-on-large-strings-2 uses a lot of RAM

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--- Comment #3 from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez from comment #2)
> Ok.. further investigation it seems the chrome results are not valid.
> 
> The try{} on the test was hidding that chrome was simply aborting with such
> large string.
> 
> I have crafted a better test that will print either the time it takes to run
> or the exception:
> 
> https://people.igalia.com/clopez/wkbug/largestrings/test-button.html
> 
> And I get:
> 
>  - Chrome: Invalid string length
>  - Firefox: repeat count must be less than infinity and not overflow maximum
> string size
>  - WebKitGTK+: Test finished: total time to run: 1459.0900000000038
> milliseconds
> 
> 

And with Safari on Mac I get: "Out of memory"

How is that? Does Safari have some control mechanism to limit the amount of memory a webview can use or something like that?

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