Add V8 snapshot support
authorKent Hansen <kent.hansen@nokia.com>
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:48:54 +0000 (09:48 +0100)
committerQt by Nokia <qt-info@nokia.com>
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:10:56 +0000 (13:10 +0100)
commit52ef2ee57fd75640aebdb7578aefb5303547dcc7
treeb1a11efd8286cfb134f4b5dc8395febd177454cf
parentce829cbb857bb0b6f49de81b4e5cc9f26ac0b2d1
Add V8 snapshot support

A V8 snapshot is a serialized representation of the JavaScript heap.
Using a snapshot can vastly speed up V8 initialization.

This commit introduces a new tool, mkv8snapshot. mkv8snapshot is
automatically invoked as part of building QtV8, and generates a .cpp
file which is compiled into the QtV8 library.

Because mkv8snapshot itself needs to initialize the V8 environment
the non-snapshot way (i.e., by evaluating thousands of lines of
JavaScript), it needs to build all of V8. This means that V8 is
effectively built twice when snapshots are enabled.

When cross-compiling, only host=i386 and target=arm is supported,
since that's the only relevant case for which V8 currently
supports a simulator. mkv8snapshot is built and run as a host tool
(using the simulator), and generates a snapshot that will be used
on the target.

Task-number: QTBUG-21152
Change-Id: I9270652f129505508f78db8b0a39fbf57dc8b86d
Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>
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configure
src/tools/mkv8snapshot/mkv8snapshot.pro [new file with mode: 0644]
src/tools/tools.pro
src/v8/v8.pri
src/v8/v8.pro
tools/configure/configureapp.cpp