I would guess it's probably because True and False are pre-allocated objects and this way the api avoids the overhead of allocating and tracking new handles in a HandleScope, as small as this overhead is.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:38 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does v8::Boolean::New return a v8::Handle when v8::String::New, > v8::Number::New and v8::Integer::New all return v8::Local ? > > Thanks. > > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
