Subj : Re: JS_ASSERT in js_MarkScriptFilename()
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "Edward Chan" <echan@macromedia.com>
Date : Sat Feb 21 2004 11:10 am

Awesome.  Thanks.

Ed


"Brendan Eich" <brendan@meer.net> wrote in message
news:4037AB37.4040706@meer.net...
> Edward Chan wrote:
>
> >Since script_filename_table is global and shared by all runtimes, don't
we
> >need to mark everything in each runtime before sweeping
> >script_filename_table?  Otherwise, something is going to get prematurely
> >swept, and when it does get marked later, it will be too late.
> >
> >
>
> You have it -- this is a SpiderMonkey bug that bites your embedding.
> Sorry about that, I should have seen it coming (but I do keep forgetting
> about your embedding's multiple runtime model, which is rare but not
> unheard of).  I'll fix it today.  Here's the bugzilla link:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235145.
>
> (Shanti Rao wins bonus points for raising the issue of global-ness for
> script_filename_table just the other day, 'tho not of the infeasibility
> of mark/sweep per runtime with multiple runtimes to GC the table.)
>
> /be

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