REOPENED 162462
SlotVisitor::visitChildren() could be better at calling cell->visitChildren() 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162462
Summary SlotVisitor::visitChildren() could be better at calling cell->visitChildren()
Filip Pizlo
Reported 2016-09-22 14:25:07 PDT
For starters, it shouldn't go looking for the VM every time.
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Filip Pizlo
Comment 1 2016-09-22 14:25:57 PDT
What if the right solution here is to JIT the SlotVisitor? That would be cool.
Filip Pizlo
Comment 2 2016-09-22 14:26:21 PDT
(In reply to comment #1) > What if the right solution here is to JIT the SlotVisitor? That would be > cool. BTW that's not insane. That's what Jikes RVM did: we had a specialized compiler for the visiting methods. It was a progression.
Filip Pizlo
Comment 3 2017-01-13 10:47:33 PST
But an even better solution would be to just make methodTable() not terrible.
Mark Lam
Comment 4 2021-02-01 23:55:39 PST
Sorry. Closed the wrong bug.
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