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Dan Elphick f15ea68d98 Create a new read-only space
Adds a new space RO_SPACE and modifies the serializer and other machinery
to support it.

Currently RO_SPACE has nothing in it, but will eventually contain all the
immovable immutable objects, so the GC can ignore it.

Bug: v8:7464
Cq-Include-Trybots: luci.chromium.try:linux_chromium_rel_ng
Change-Id: Ib2ff474699196c138df8c24f7a2248471e30fbac
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/925703
Commit-Queue: Dan Elphick <delphick@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Payer <hpayer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Guo <yangguo@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#52053}
2018-03-20 10:11:54 +00:00
benchmarks Fix common misspellings 2017-08-02 09:35:28 +00:00
build_overrides [ndk] Change android ndk root for v8 2018-01-11 08:10:33 +00:00
docs [Docs] Removed unused docs because they are moved to GitHub 2015-11-19 10:23:30 +00:00
gni Revert "[build] Make separate snapshot for trusted variant" 2018-03-19 13:56:35 +00:00
include [reland] [in-place weak refs] Use WeakArray in Script::shared_function_infos. 2018-03-19 13:33:24 +00:00
infra [build] Remove configs for mac32 builders 2018-03-20 07:55:33 +00:00
samples [sample] fix potential memory leak. 2018-02-21 13:06:18 +00:00
src Create a new read-only space 2018-03-20 10:11:54 +00:00
test Make Snapshot::EnsureBuiltinIsDeserialized more robust. 2018-03-20 09:27:43 +00:00
testing [gyp] move build targets for tests to gypfiles. 2018-01-30 06:31:00 +00:00
third_party Move detect_v8_host_arch out of gypfiles. 2018-01-31 08:21:01 +00:00
tools [in-place weak refs prework] No dependent code handling when maps die. 2018-03-19 15:28:44 +00:00
.clang-format [clang-format] Don't derive pointer alignment 2017-01-17 09:28:19 +00:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-07-28 13:39:24 +00:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs [build] Add DEPS formatting to hyper-blame 2017-10-09 14:08:45 +00:00
.gitignore [gyp] remove gyp files. 2018-02-08 20:04:06 +00:00
.gn For building v8 using gn on aix_ppc64, linux_s390x and linux_ppc64(both LE and BE). 2017-05-12 01:35:09 +00:00
.vpython [tools] Add pypiwin32 pacakge to VPython config 2018-03-09 20:33:36 +00:00
.ycm_extra_conf.py [ycm] Switch from gnu++11 to gnu++14 2017-11-27 07:48:21 +00:00
AUTHORS Fix error message for octal escapes in templates 2018-03-08 18:57:45 +00:00
BUILD.gn Revert "[build] Make separate snapshot for trusted variant" 2018-03-19 13:56:35 +00:00
ChangeLog [tools] Merge ChangeLog from latest release 2017-12-19 12:30:56 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Explicitly state that the Chromium Code of Conduct also applies to V8 2016-03-02 09:51:24 +00:00
codereview.settings Make Gerrit the default code review for V8 2017-06-30 17:37:37 +00:00
DEPS Update V8 DEPS. 2018-03-20 03:48:49 +00:00
LICENSE Updates to the license information of third party components. 2015-06-16 12:37:50 +00:00
LICENSE.fdlibm Add LICENSE.fdlibm for all the fdlibm imported sources. 2016-06-09 07:17:03 +00:00
LICENSE.strongtalk Add LICENSE.v8, LICENSE.strongtalk and LICENSE.valgrind to the v8 2011-02-03 07:10:06 +00:00
LICENSE.v8 Add LICENSE.v8, LICENSE.strongtalk and LICENSE.valgrind to the v8 2011-02-03 07:10:06 +00:00
LICENSE.valgrind Add LICENSE.v8, LICENSE.strongtalk and LICENSE.valgrind to the v8 2011-02-03 07:10:06 +00:00
OWNERS Adding a few more wasm related OWNERS. 2018-03-01 20:19:07 +00:00
PRESUBMIT.py [gyp] remove gyp files. 2018-02-08 20:04:06 +00:00
README.md [Docs] Removed unused docs because they are moved to GitHub 2015-11-19 10:23:30 +00:00
snapshot_toolchain.gni MIPS[64]: Generate snapshots on MIPS big-endian targets 2017-11-24 19:00:32 +00:00
WATCHLISTS Remove v8-x87-ports@ from WATCHLIST 2018-02-26 19:56:21 +00:00

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.