Internet is alive today in the boonies.LGTM.
/kel

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Freeland Abbott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Bruce, with Kelly away and Scott abdicating over JsArrayBase, it falls back
> to you for this patch.
>
> This should have only the non-contentious stuff (namely push and shift)...
> plus toSource, which I argue is dead-stripped if unused, and plausibly
> useful for debugging (yes, on Mozilla only, but it tests for definition, and
> I don't imagine anything else should want that method name).  I can make an
> in-project utility class to do sort, since Kelly was nervous about setting
> an ill-considered trend for JSO functors.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Freeland Abbott <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Review: JsArrays patch
> To: Kelly Norton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Scott Blum <[email protected]>, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>,
> GWTcontrib <[email protected]>
>
>
> Okay.  I'll look into sort and toSource tomorrow; right now I'm away from
> that project code to see whether I want to try to fight for sort.
> So this patch should, I hope, be just the easy stuff.  Usually when I say
> something rash like that it turns out I'm very wrong, but we'll see.
>
> Regarding JSO, I pulled toSource, but left the I-think-helpful toString().
>  I know Scott worried about "pulling in" other types' toString(), but in
> separate private email I think his worry is unfounded---best I know, we
> don't analyze JSNI bodies, so while this implementation references
> toString() if available, it can't change code size by pulling anything in
> that wasn't already coming for the ride.  I think; I'm sure he or someone
> will correct me if I'm wrong on that!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Kelly Norton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Few things:
>> Overall, I'd like to be more conservative landing things in
>> JavaScriptObject for a couple of reasons: (1) It's hard to take a mulligan
>> with these because of their constraints (2) there is always a trivial work
>> around to create application specific subclasses (with toll free casting).
>>
>> >> From r5082: I don't think toSource is appropriate for JavaScriptObject.
>> It only works on mozilla browsers.
>> >> JsArray.push: As I recall, this[this.length] = value is faster than
>> this.push(value) on all browsers. It's not a complexity change like
>> array.pop() is, but it can be significant. (How I do wish we had continuous
>> perf testing).
>>
>> >> javadoc: The javadoc for these should be written to describe what the
>> function does. "Direct mapping to underlying sort" is a good implementation
>> note, but we should actually way what it does and not rely on developers
>> having an understanding of the JavaScript equivalent.
>>
>> >> sort(JavaScriptObject): I'd like to avoid this one if we can. It just
>> opens up larger questions about the right way to do this. We don't currently
>> have a convention for representing JavaScript functions in Java. Someone
>> should probably have a good story there before we add something like this to
>> JavaScriptObject.
>>
>> /kel
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Freeland Abbott <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I think the argument is more for "unnecessary" rather than "bad"...
>>> although without JsArrayBase (we can make it package-protected, and call it
>>> JsArrayImpl if anyone cares), we duplicate the JSNI implementation for a
>>> couple trivial methods.  I thought refactoring them into one place was nice,
>>> but trivial enough that I'm not fighting over it.  Revised patch attached; I
>>> can go either way on this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Scott Blum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm going to punt this review to Bruce & Kelly, 'cause I have no idea
>>>> why having JsArrayBase would be bad. :)
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Freeland Abbott <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Scott, we already talked about this, but here's the patch for public
>>>>> review.
>>>>>
>>>>> The basic goal is to surface the native length, sort, push, and shift
>>>>> operators for JsArrays... I know you mentioned that IE6's push may be 
>>>>> slower
>>>>> than indexed extension, and thus a candidate for deferred binding, but I
>>>>> wanted to get a basic implementation in first.
>>>>>
>>>>> There should be only checkstyle changes from what we discussed (though
>>>>> that obviously doesn't help the rest GWTC).  I also added some checkstyle
>>>>> fixes to JavaScriptObject, introduced by my c5082.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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