Subj : Re: E4X support in mozilla?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Shanti Rao
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 11:25 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:
> Shanti Rao wrote:
> 
>> Brendan,
>>
>> 1. What's JSScript::numGlobalVars for?
> 
> 
> 
> It counts one more than the greatest atom index of all declared global 
> variables and regular expressions in the script.  It's used for the fast 
> global optimization (see bug 169559, fixed, and follow-on bug 276249).
> 

It looks like if you want to serialize a script, you're limited to 65535 
global objects? I'm noticing that js_XDRScript() only keeps 16 bits at 
jsscript.c#429. Does anyone even use that feature anymore? Is the iPlanet 
server still in print?

Shanti

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