Bug 4416

Summary: speed up JavaScript with some improvements to the garbage collector
Product: WebKit Reporter: Darin Adler <darin>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Darin Adler <darin>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
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patch to improve inner loops in the garbage collector; use global variables less mjs: review+

Darin Adler
Reported 2005-08-13 22:41:29 PDT
I did some analysis of JavaScript iBench performance, and found some speedups. This one is an improvement of the garbage collector code.
Attachments
patch to improve inner loops in the garbage collector; use global variables less (11.41 KB, patch)
2005-08-13 22:42 PDT, Darin Adler 		mjs: review+
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Darin Adler
Comment 1 2005-08-13 22:42:40 PDT
Created attachment 3364 [details] patch to improve inner loops in the garbage collector; use global variables less
Darin Adler
Comment 2 2005-08-13 22:44:40 PDT
I'm seeing at least a 2% improvement with this change.
Darin Adler
Comment 3 2005-08-14 01:54:57 PDT
Comment on attachment 3364 [details] patch to improve inner loops in the garbage collector; use global variables less In my own copy of the patch, I changed MAX back to max.
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