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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Sven Panne <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've never heard of that flag, and I'm quite sure that from a V8 POV, it
> is OK to remove it.
>

I haven't heard of that flag before either, and I'm pretty sure that V8
doesn't use it.

Replacing Math.random() with a deterministic pseudo-RNG can make a lot of
sense to reduce benchmark flakiness, but that can easily be done in
JavaScript (assuming that's what this flag used to do).


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to track down whether --no-js-randomness is used anymore.  The
>> only use in the Chromium tree is in perftracker, which I've been told is
>> unused.
>>
>> The effect of this flag is to register the v8 playback extension.
>>
>> Does anyone still use this?
>>
>
> Having not heard anything, in a few days I'll remove this flag.
>
> Please respond soon if you do actually need this flag preserved for some
> reason.
>
> PK
>
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