Bug 21270

Summary:

Avoid unnecessary copy of params for no-param functions that don't use "this"

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs>

Component:

JavaScriptCore

Assignee:

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Severity:

Normal

CC:

barraclough

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
first attempt - not clear if it has the desired perf benefit	none

Description Maciej Stachowiak 2008-10-01 02:36:36 PDT

When a function that has no formal parameters, and which does not use "this", is called with too many arguments, it is not necessary to copy the arguments and build a second call frame. Avoiding this should lead to a speedup.

Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2008-10-01 02:38:34 PDT

Created attachment 23973 [details]
first attempt - not clear if it has the desired perf benefit

Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2008-10-01 12:31:52 PDT

Comment on attachment 23973 [details]
first attempt - not clear if it has the desired perf benefit

I did not mean to flag this for review.

Comment 3 Gavin Barraclough 2012-09-06 23:42:25 PDT

I think this case has been covered by revering the arguments – we now only need to fixup the arguments if too few are passed.