On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 13, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Meryl Silverburgh wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does webkit cache squirrelfish bytecode? For example, multiple can use >> the same javascript file (e.g. common javascript libraries, like >> jquery, or same domain uses some common javascript file across >> different pages for the same domain). >> >> When webkit parses the JS file and builds squirrelfish-bytecode, does >> it cache it ? so that subsequence loading of the same js file will >> skip the js compile process? > > We don't currently cache the bytecode (or the native code). It is an option > we have considered, however, currently, code generation is a trivial portion > of JS execution time (< 2%), so we're not pursuing this at the moment. > > Regards, > Maciej >
Thanks. You mention native code. Under what situation will squirrelfish generate native code? I thought this is how v8 works, but not squirrelfish. Squirrelfish parse JS files and generate its internal bytecode and its VM will execute the bytecode. Is that correct? or I am missing something. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
