Subj : Re: E4X support in mozilla?
To   : Shanti Rao
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri Jan 07 2005 10:10 am

Shanti Rao wrote:

> 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?


Yes, XDR is used every time you restart Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla, 
etc. as part of XUL FastLoad.

No, there's no new limit here: atom indexes stored as immediate operands 
in bytecode were always two bytes, so always limited to maximum value of 
65535.

/be

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