Subj : Re: Possible Bug in js_NumberToString? To : Stephen Jones From : Brendan Eich Date : Sat May 10 2003 03:04 pm Stephen Jones wrote: >I'm pretty sure it's 1.5-rc4 . . . could be rc3a, because I have both >archived on my machine, but I'm pretty sure it's rc4 . . . any place I can >look in the code to be sure? > jsapi.c:JS_GetImplementationVersion, which you can call, too, if you need a runtime check. >BTW: This only seemed to be happening on Windows, the MacX platform seemed >fine. > > Phil Schwartau is master of all JS bugs, he may know of an existing one on file. Otherwise he can help you file a new one. >Side Note: We're extremely pleased with SpiderMonkey. We were using the >Microsoft Active Scripting engine in our product and when we ported it to >the Mac, we needed another solution. The speed increases we're seeing over >the Microsoft engine are incredible. > Cool -- any benchmarks to share? > The static methods and garbage >collection make SpiderMonkey a little difficult to deal with, but once >integrated, the engine seems very solid. > Thanks. By static methods I take it you mean the extern "C" function API? >I heard rumor at some point of a 2.0 version. Is this in the works? We would >love to see a C++ solution. Accepting any design input? > rogerl@netscape.com reads this group, he's working on a 2.0 implementation in C++, IIRC. See http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js2/ for the cross-referenced html source view. >Thanks for all the hard work, > You're welcome -- thanks for the kind words. /be .