Brendan Eich (2013-08-05T14:53:32.000Z)
David Bruant wrote:
> Le 05/08/2013 05:54, Brendan Eich a écrit :
>> David Bruant wrote:
>>> Le 04/08/2013 00:10, Brandon Benvie a écrit :
>>>> On 8/3/2013 12:30 PM, David Bruant wrote:
>>>>> That said, I recently worked on a project and I reviewed a pull 
>>>>> request with "typeof x === 'object'" to ask to replace to 
>>>>> 'Object(x) === x'.
>>>> On a side note, I think your version of isObject is problematic 
>>>> because it requires allocating an object every time the function 
>>>> encounters a primitive.
>>> It's not required. That's the raw reading of the spec and that's 
>>> probably what the implementations do, but it's not required. When 
>>> reading "if(Object(x) === x)", the JS engine, at the time of calling 
>>> "Object(x)" knows that the outcome won't be used except for its 
>>> identity. It also knows that what matters isn't even the identity, 
>>> but whether the identity is equal to x. In essence, the allocation 
>>> isn't required per se.
>>
>> Does any engine actually optimize away the wrapper?
> Is this pattern used in a benchmark engines optimize against?

Not AFAIK, so I doubt any engine optimizes yet!

> Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901442 on the 
> SpiderMonkey side.
>

Thanks,

/be
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-08-12T05:24:28.567Z)
David Bruant wrote:
> Le 05/08/2013 05:54, Brendan Eich a écrit :
>> Does any engine actually optimize away the wrapper?
> Is this pattern used in a benchmark engines optimize against?

Not AFAIK, so I doubt any engine optimizes yet!