AFAIK everyone is doing (1) currently, and so at least for now, which is
kinda what we agreed on some time ago. I don't see why we have to change
that now. I think (3) is essentially (2) with a different directory/base
filename, and many people thought that (2) was bad, which AFAIR is why we
are at (1) currently. I'm fine with moving objects.cc/.h somewhere else
and/or split them up, but I think we should delay that for now. This will
just be distracting for the work that has to happen in that area IMHO.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, 'Andreas Rossberg' via v8-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Some quick thoughts.
>
> Option (4) is a non-starter. Section numbers are not stable across spec
> releases.
>
> Option (3) doesn't sound bad, although it's not quite clear what the
> criteria for putting something into objects vs runtime vs the new dir would
> be. If we introduced a third category, not only stuff from runtime but also
> significant parts of the logic in objects.cc should naturally move there.
> Sounds like a lot of work with unclear benefit.
>
> Option (1) seems like the most adequate for now.
>
> IMHO, thinking about a new directory structure is putting the cart before
> the horse at this point. It only is interesting as part of a broader
> strategy for splitting up objects.h/cc. I don't think we currently have any
> plausible plan for that.
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> On 25 September 2015 at 11:58, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> As we have discussed at various occasions recently, we generally want to
>> move in the direction of having C++ implementations of spec-defined
>> behavior. That raises the question of where this code should live.
>>
>> As an example of the kind of code we're talking about, consider
>> https://codereview.chromium.org/1368753003/diff/1/src/runtime/runtime-object.cc
>>  *(don't
>> panic, runtime-object.cc is not the intended final place for this code to
>> live -- the very purpose of this thread is to figure out a better place.)*,
>> but there are also other, existing examples (like various ToXXX conversion
>> functions, a bunch of things spread across runtime-*.cc, the JS
>> implementations littered with runtime calls that we want to replace, ...).
>>
>> Options I can think of:
>>
>> (1) Put everything into objects.cc.
>> + Makes a lot of sense for things like DefineOwnProperty_Array, which
>> could just be a static function JSArray::DefineOwnProperty.
>> + Is an easy approach in the sense of being consistent with existing code
>> structure (is that a good thing?)
>> − It's not clear how this approach maps to non-HeapObjects like the new
>> class PropertyDescriptor
>> − I like having some distinction between high-level spec-defined
>> operations like "DefineOwnProperty" and low-level V8 implementation details
>> like MigrateToMap -- installing both on the same class JSObject feels like
>> a recipe for confusion.
>> − objects.h/.cc are too big as it is, IMHO (of course this point is moot
>> if/when we split it up)
>>
>> (2) Put everything in runtime-*.cc
>> + Works, and there's plenty of precedent.
>> − AFAIK we have pretty wide consensus that that's not what we want.
>> − A concrete technical drawback is a lack of callability from other
>> places.
>>
>> (3) Create a new directory, put everything there.
>> + All reference implementations would be in one place
>> + Can use individual files for further grouping if desired. Is that
>> desired? What file structure would be good?
>> + Personally I think we need more separation of things anyway, this is a
>> step in that direction
>> • next question: how to call that directory? src/spec/? src/es6/?
>> /src/blue/? (blue sheds are nice)
>> − For some things it might be unclear where to put them; our
>> "abstractions" are (necessarily?) leaky
>> − New thing to get used to; inconsistency while it's a work in progress
>>
>> (4) Organize by spec chapter, e.g. put OrdinaryDefineOwnProperty into
>> src/es2015/ch9/9.1.cc or somesuch
>> + If applied consistently, makes it easy to find things that are already
>> implemented, which avoids duplication
>> − the resulting grouping may or may not make sense (it's up to the spec)
>> − ugly
>>
>> Personally I'm leaning towards some variant of (3), but I'm open to being
>> convinced otherwise. (1) sounds like a temporary solution to me; why not go
>> for a longer-term plan right away?
>>
>> Thoughts? Other ideas? Indifference?
>>
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