Jan just disabled __noSucnMethod__ on Nightly (Firefox 44). On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <pidgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/2015 10:44 AM, Jan De Mooij wrote: > >> We've deprecated [0] __noSuchMethod__ [1] support in SpiderMonkey. It's a >> non-standard feature that no other engine supports, and it's been >> hindering >> ongoing performance work as __noSuchMethod__ is not trivial to support in >> the JITs. >> >> I've posted patches to convert all in-tree and add-on SDK uses and we'll >> add a console warning when __noSuchMethod__ is used [2]. >> >> There's no drop-in replacement, but in most cases you can either use ES6 >> proxies or rewrite the code to add the properties you care about manually. >> >> I don't know when/if we can remove this feature from SpiderMonkey, but >> we'll likely wait at least a few months to avoid breaking too many >> add-ons. >> In the meantime, please don't add or review code that uses >> __noSuchMethod__. >> > > FWIW, I've found that both the uses in comm-central are basically poor > man's reimplementation of ES6 classes, so I don't think it's worth removing > this code until ES6 classes land. > > -- > Joshua Cranmer > Thunderbird and DXR developer > Source code archæologist > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
