[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 184015] API::SharedJSContext caches its JSContext for at most one second

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184015

--- Comment #10 from Saam Barati <sbarati at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Geoffrey Garen from comment #6)
> > > Keith / Saam, is there a reason SharedJSContext "expires" after one second?
> > 
> > I don't know of any reason.
> > 
> > Geoff, do you know?
> 
> It looks like I asked for some limit on this cache in bug 146416. Given that
> a JS VM retains a bunch of memory, I think it's an important goal that a
> WKWebView client should be able to allocate a WebView, do some work with it,
> and then throw it away without retaining a JS VM forever.
> 
> Here are some solutions that I think would be reasonable:
> 
> (1) Make allocation of a JSContext faster than 16ms. (Jeepers!)
I like this idea.

> 
> (2) Change API::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize to accept a WKWebView
> argument, and keep a weak reference to that argument, and clear its cache
> when the set of all WebViews that has ever called
> API::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize becomes empty.
> 
> I think we should probably do both of these.

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