Review request for JDK-8006950

[Marcus Lagergren]

+1

On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:

> Please review webrev for JDK-8006950: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8006950/
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> The gist of this is that we can omit calling ScriptObject.setProto() in constructors of Nasgen-processed  classes if we know the prototype has been set correctly in the object's $nasgenmap$ field. This is because Nasgen inserts $nasgenmap$ to all calls to zero-arg ScriptObject super-constructor. Also, prototype properties of native ES constructors are non-writable and non-configurable.
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> The patch contains an incomplete array microbenchmark (only array creation covered so far), most of which now is roughly 3x faster.
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> Hannes