Re: [dev-servo] Meeting notes - further discussion of selected topics from "Unanswered questions" thread

2013-07-15 Thread David Herman
On Jul 15, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 7/15/13 3:05 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: >> https://github.com/mozilla/servo/wiki/Meeting-2013-07-15 > > Some comments on the discussion (sorry I couldn't make the meeting, and thank > you for the notes!): > > 1) Mutable prototypes will be su

Re: [dev-servo] Unanswered questions from a Q&A about Servo

2013-07-12 Thread David Herman
On Jul 12, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: >> * Could we "freeze" background pages (on a language level?) and unload >> them in order to conserve memory and avoid extra processing work, with >> the expectation of resurrecting them later as needed? > > Rust does have good support for ser

Re: [dev-servo] dev-servo Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

2013-07-03 Thread David Herman
Seems like the hard part of this is that you can't predict when JS will modify the DOM or CSS in ways that break you out of a subset. That makes the asm.css idea -- particularly the part about "snapping" into a guaranteed fast path with no fallback once you can prove you're in it for good -- har

Re: [dev-servo] HTML parser-related datatypes

2012-10-11 Thread David Herman
On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/11/12 4:09 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> I'm not seeing why the JS engine has to use any particular >> representation internally just because JS's exposed semantics are >> defined in terms of UCS-2. > > Well, because it's simpler and becaus