On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:10:41PM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Paul Pedriana wrote: > > > In reading Maciej Stachowiak's page at > > http://webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme/, it talks > > about native code generation and platform support. I would like to > > point > > out that some platforms do not allow runtime native code generation, > > either due to hardware restrictions or due to licensing requirements > > of > > the hardware vendor. In either case it is usually due to > > security-related reasons. So the ability for JavaScript to continue to > > work indefinitely without native code generation would be necessary if > > it is to remain portable. > > We're not planning to remove the non-JIT code path any time soon.
BTW, are both code paths available and selectable at run-time? (for instance, when PAX is enabled, one would want to automatically have the non-JIT code path) Mike _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev