Subj : Change TinyId to int16
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Thorsten R
Date : Fri Feb 25 2005 01:40 pm

We have modified the source code of SpiderMonkey. We have the need of
mapping more than 256 properties to ID's (for performance reasons) and we
examined the source code of SM and internally it is using an int16 for the
TinyId. Only the API has limited it to int8.

So we only had to change the API, which was 4 function declarations in
jsapi.c (2 are static) and 2 function declarations in jsapi.h, plus the
property struct.

We would like to ask, if the SM maintainers can do the change in the main SM
source code, so we don't need to make these changes locally with each new
release of SM. Since the change is so small and easy, I think it is of great
value for all users, since the limit to int8 has been discussed already very
often.

Thorsten

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