On Apr 29, 2015, at 9:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Aren't there limits to the number of arguments you can pass to a ES function > before getting a stack overflow? Yup. For example WebKit limits to around 10000. This protects our other stack overflow detection logic from overflow. > > I've gotten in trouble trying to abuse the `arguments` array like this > before, for example `Math.max.apply(Math, someVeryLargeArray)`. > > Empirically, with iojs 1.8.1: > ``` > > Math.max.apply(Math, new Array(100000)) > NaN > > Math.max.apply(Math, new Array(1000000)) > RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded > ``` > I suppose it would be nice if JavaScript engines fell back to passing > arguments on the heap to avoid this problem, but I don't think that's part of > the ES6 spec. Am I mistaken? That would be a great idea! Filed on our end: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144391 <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144391> -Filip > > If we're going to add math functions to the standard library, my vote would > be for > http://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html > > <http://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html> > --scott > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss>
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