Subj : Re: Stopping Script Execution
To   : JZ <jamilz@citlink.net>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Sep 24 2003 11:40 pm

JZ wrote:
> Lets say we have a script like:
> 
> for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
>   // just a waste of time
> }
> 
> I want to be able to stop the execution of this script. I know if the script
> is calling one of my native C functions, I can return JS_FALSE to stop the
> script, but how do I stop a script such as the one above that doesn't call a
> native function?


Use JS_SetBranchCallback.


> If I close the context/runtime I get an exception.

"close"?  Destroying them frees their memory, an obvious impurity.

/be

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