Subj : Re: SpiderMonkey's serialization/deserialization
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : anton muhin
Date : Wed Sep 15 2004 05:23 pm

Hello, Brendan!

First of all, thank you very much.

I manage to compile and restore scripts with you help. And if you don't 
mind I have a couple of questions:

1. Compiled script is approx. 2 times bigger than the source, was it 
intentional (e.g. developers tried to speed things as mush as possible)? 
  If one studies compiled scripts it's easy to find out that no string 
merging is performed that obviously leads to bigger size.

2. There seems to be no public API function that fetches JSScript from 
the JSObject. Of course, in most of the cases it's unneeded, but when 
the script is thawed, I need to get JSScript object to call 
JS_ExecuteScript on the appropriate global object (now I just use 
JS_GetPrivate, but it, obviously, breaks incapsulation).

3. And the last question. If I understand correctly, you was the person 
that wrote most of SpiderMonkey. If it's not a secret, how much time it 
took?

With the best regards,
anton.

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