Subj : Re: Persistent storage of compiled scripts
To   : Thorsten R
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Tue Jul 20 2004 08:51 am

Thorsten R wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to compile scripts and store the resulting code persistantly
> in a file for later use?
> 
> In other words: we don't want to compile the whole JS code each time it is
> loaded into our application. Instead we would like to compile it once and
> use the p-code then immediately at runtime.
> 
> If this is possible: how do we get access to the p-code (for storage to
> file) and how do we feed the p-code later back to the interpreter engine?


See jsxdrapi.h's JS_XDRScript, which you can use in conjunction with 
JS_Compile*Script* (to generate a top-level script to be serialized) and 
JS_ExecuteScript (after deserializing).

/be

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