PSA: We'd like to enable v8_use_external_startup_data for default V8 builds soon-ish. Like, end of the week. This only switches the default; the old behaviour continuous to be available.
What will change? If you build/link V8 with your own project: - You may want to update your build config to explicitly set v8_use_external_startup_data to what you want it to be. If it's 0, everything will stay as it is now. If you build & use d8, cctest, unittests: By default, everything should work as it used to. If you copy your d8 binary outside of the tree or call a specific d8 instance via PATH, then you will need to - either copy the startup data files to the right location, - or use --natives_blob= and --snapshot_blob= to tell d8 where those files are. - or - as said above - build with v8_use_external_startup_data=0 What if you don't like it? - Change the default in your config back to v8_use_external_startup_data=0. (We intend to preserve the ability to statically link in the snapshot. Just not as default.) - If that's not good enough, please complain right now so that we can reconsider. Background info & why we're changing this: V8's startup data (the built-in libraries + a pre-compiled snapshot of them) is statically linked into the executable. For some embedders binary size is important, so this is not a universally good solution. To accommodate such embedders, the build option v8_use_external_startup_data was introduced, which puts the startup data into separate files. Our largest embedder - Chromium - has been using this on most platforms. In the past we had several build breakages related to this feature, ultimately because the build config used by devs + the v8 waterfall doesn't match what embedders use, and hence the problems were found only very late. To prevent this, we would like to mirror the use by our largest embedder for our default config. Daniel -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
