On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > What are the reasons to not like V8 in the browser?
To summarize the arguments: - reduce memory fragmentation in browser by not creating a V8 heap in the browser for PAC processing - reduce browser's dependencies (purely from a build perspective). That significantly grows our test executables. - that one other reason Marc-Antoine mentioned off-list that is security-sensitive - forces the browser process 32-bit, which is a huge pain to install on 64-bit Ubuntu (you have to manually unpack .deb files and create symlinks in /usr/lib, etc.). If the ship is already heading this direction it's perhaps not worth trying to turn it around. I was just selfishly hoping for the last reason. For an example, Dean found that the reason we weren't able to render Flash on our 64-bit boxes but could on our 32-bit ones was that the 64-bit and 32-bit libgtk packages had skewed to different versions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
