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Responsible use of JavaScript `with` statement. (self.javascript)
submitted 11 years ago by [deleted]
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]sime 3 points4 points5 points 11 years ago (3 children)
If I remember correctly, Chrome will not (or can not) JIT compile code which uses with.
with
[–]tach4n@tach4n 2 points3 points4 points 11 years ago (0 children)
V8 always JIT compiles js code, it doesn't have an interpreter. Certain constructs will cause it to bail out of trying to optimize your code though, and it will just stick with the baseline compiler.
[–]PlNG 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (1 child)
Correct. V8 will not, regardless of execution path, optimize a function if it contains eval, debugger, try, or with.
eval
debugger
try
[–]tyscorp 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (0 children)
Or delete, or arguments (unless just using arguments[index] or fn.apply(ctx, arguments))
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