Seems like if the relevant benchmarks (speedometer) are ok with it then we should just do this.
-Filip > On Feb 24, 2017, at 20:50, Mark Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > The JSC VM has this method setExclusiveThread(). Some details: > 1. setExclusiveThread() is only used to forego actually locking/unlocking the > underlying lock inside JSLock. > 2. setExclusiveThread() is only used by WebCore where we can guarantee that > the VM will only ever be used exclusively on one thread. > 3. the underlying lock inside JSLock used to be a slow system lock. > > Now that we have fast locking, I propose that we simplify the JSLock code by > removing the concept of the exclusiveThread and always lock/unlock the > underlying lock. This also give us the ability to tryLock the JSLock > (something I would like to be able to do for something new I’m working on). > > Does anyone see a reason why we can’t remove the concept of the > exclusiveThread? > > Thanks. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
