Two questions on Nashorn features

[Greg Brail]

I'm still looking at porting a lot of Rhino code to Nashorn since it seems
to be measurably faster and it is going to keep up with the Java specs
better than Rhino.

There are two Rhino features that seem to be to be hard to replicate in the
world of Nashorn and I wonder if the team has any idea if we could get to
them.

First, Rhino blows up when trying to compile scripts that produce more than
64K of bytecode, but you can fall back to interpreted mode in that case so
that they still run, although much more slowly. I realize that Nashorn has
no interpreter. Is it still subject to the 64K class file limit? Is there
some other work around for large scripts (which are surprisingly common in
the Node.js world).

Second, Rhino has the following handy feature:

/**
     * Turn on or off generation of code with callbacks to
     * track the count of executed instructions.
     * Currently only affects JVM byte code generation: this slows down the
     * generated code, but code generated without the callbacks will not
     * be counted toward instruction thresholds. Rhino's interpretive
     * mode does instruction counting without inserting callbacks, so
     * there is no requirement to compile code differently.
     * @param generateObserverCount if true, generated code will contain
     * calls to accumulate an estimate of the instructions executed.
     */
    public void setGenerateObserverCount(boolean generateObserverCount) {
        this.generateObserverCount = generateObserverCount;
    }

with this feature turned on, any script will periodically call a callback,
and we can implement that callback to check a timer and throw an exception.
This can cause a long-running task to abort. This is really handy if you
want to run untrusted Javascript in a container, because it protects your
container from scripts that contain infinite loops.

Is there any chance that the Nashorn team might consider such a feature in
an upcoming release? Or can you think of another way to do this in the
world of Java 8?


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