On 5/21/10 1:34 AM, Shiki Okasaka wrote:
* backward binary compatibility: the application programs developed with the former SDKs should run with browsers as long as browsers retain the required features for ECMAScript.
Gecko has this now for DOM interfaces, mostly. It's a noticeable performance and memory penalty, especially as features need to be added, due to the way it's implemented right now on top of C++ vtables. As Benjamin mentioned, we will most likely stop doing this by default for the core DOM interfaces. Someone could still provide a stable ABI in some form of C++ binding, but it's not clear to me that we plan to do that ourselves. Patches accepted, probably.
-Boris
