This has been asked for numerous times and the responses that I've seen are: "run it in a separate process" and "we take patches as long as it doesn't slow down anything".
On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 10:36:07 PM UTC-7, Mark Tarrabain wrote: > > Is it possible to get the v8 engine when using it from a C++ application > to utilize a soft-memory limit per isolate such that if the bounds are > exceeded, the isolate will simply be irrecoverably terminated instead of > crashing the process? While aborting a process might be acceptable when > the javascript code is isolated (hah! a pun!) enough from your native > application that it is easy to invoke as a separate process, and you can > just wait for it to finish, it is much less practical when you are wanting > to utilize javascript to customize the behavior of C++ functions, where the > native code wants to repeatedly call javascript functions for certain > tasks, and in turn the javascript may invoke functions that are implemented > as native functions which are part of your main program, and where these > functions need to be generally able to read and write shared data that is > ordinarily visible to all threads (a multiprocess model is not amenable to > this without complicating the program with expensive interprocess > communication that is necessary to simply share the data, where the data > would otherwise be equally visible to all relevant tasks because they would > simply be different threads running on the same process). > > I really like v8's highly C++ centered design, which does not seem to be > shared by most of the alternatives that I have seen for embedding > Javascript in a native application, but the necessity of not having an > application crash just because it might have run some badly behaved > javascript code is absolutely critical for my purposes. > -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
