A Linux system running over JavaScript
A Linux system running over JavaScript
Posted May 26, 2011 7:18 UTC (Thu) by przemoc (guest, #67594)In reply to: A Linux system running over JavaScript by nlucas
Parent article: A Linux system running over JavaScript
http://codereview.chromium.org/7037023
It's theoretically addressing v8 issue 1394, but in fact it's more about Chromium issue 82828. The problem of v12/13 was just briefly mentioned in "PC emulator is about 2 times slower using V8 than Jaeger Monkey" report and did not have deserving separate issue in v8 project.
> Fix bug in optimized compiler's switch-statement.
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> In the case where the default-clause occurs as the first clause, the case-blocks were not wired up correctly.
So it was a matter of extracting non-NULL check equivalently from if block into inner if. That shouldn't be really needed in obtaining correct behavior though...
Speed deficiency (when compared to Fx) remains for the time being.
