Bug 157774 - Web Inspector: Slow and unusable when catching stack overflow exception
Summary: Web Inspector: Slow and unusable when catching stack overflow exception
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Inspector (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: All All
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: InRadar
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Reported: 2016-05-16 17:25 PDT by Saam Barati
Modified: 2016-12-13 15:37 PST (History)
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Description Saam Barati 2016-05-16 17:25:23 PDT 
Repro steps:
1. Enable break on all uncaught exceptions
2. Write a program that infinitely recurses without tail calls
3. Reload page
4. Inspector is effectively inoperable.

Maybe we should just not allow stack overflow to be catchable if the experience is like this?
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2016-05-17 13:52:15 PDT 
<rdar://problem/26330093>