Thanks, Kelly.  Apologies for making you find a tree with wi-fi
available....

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Kelly Norton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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