On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > That's right -- no races, execution still seems single-threaded. Wherefore > the special form, although if this line is in a seldom-executed branch you > still have the hit of loading B up front.
Right. The optimization in this case is that the runtime could delay loading B and, if B is encountered, *block* the currently running event loop and fetch B. Ihab -- Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
