2006-11-17

Announcements

• Relicensing Rhino to MPL
  • Rhino has been released under MPL/GPL license which makes it possible to distribute third party software with Apache.

Discussions

• JS_AddNamedRoot
  • A user is wondering where and when he would need to call JS_AddNamedRoot in C code.

• Special characters
  • Inquiry of how to use special characters in spidermonkey.

• Recycle array objects
  • A user trying to overcome the need of using huge number of arrays (as vectors) asks if its possible to reuse unreferenced array objects instead of create new ones in SpiderMonkey.
  • Mike Shaver's response was that resurrecting objects is not possible and that objects in SpiderMonkey are not reference counted.