Subj : Re: Slow string conversion of long js functions
To   : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@bioshop.de>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Sat Jan 10 2004 03:40 pm

Georg Maaß wrote:

> Never tried to debug the shell, because it never crashed before, but 
> this crash is reproducable. What shall I do to debug?

gdb if you can, or something to get a stack backtrace (pstack if there's 
a hung process, if not gdb).


>> If you put the test function in a file and feed it to the shell, then 
>> what?
> 
> 
> js> load('/home/bioshop/test.js');
> 4617
> 462
> js>
> 
> No crash. Why is it slowlier than the browser?

Is it?  Run three times to warm your OS's page cache.  Also, is it a 
debug or optimized shell?  If optimized, using what option?

/be

.