Really I need something a little more deterministic than a time limit. Is
there a way to set an instruction limit? Or perhaps something similar to
lua_sethook (http://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/lua_sethook) in Lua which calls a
callback every given number of instructions.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:11 PM, James Lovejoy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to set a hard execution limit in the V8 engine? I want to
> be
> > able to prevent things like infinite loops and recursions. I realise that
> > since V8 compiles to machine code I don't get a program counter or
> anything.
> > I feel like setting the "stack limit" is the right way to go but the
> usage
> > of this feature from the documentation is unclear. Can someone guide me
> as
> > to how to achieve such a limit?
> >
> > James
>
> If 'execution limit' means 'time limit': start a watchdog thread and
> call v8::Isolate::TerminateExecution() from that thread on timeout.
> It must be a thread, it's not safe to call from a signal handler.
>
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