Improve performance of Array.prototype.join and String.prototype.substring...

test/mjsunit/fuzz-natives.js

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@@ skipping 77 matching lines @@
       func.apply(void 0, argList);
     } catch (e) {
       // we don't care what happens as long as we don't crash
     }
     type++;
   }
 }
 
 var knownProblems = {
   "Abort": true,
-  
+
+  // Avoid calling the concat operation, because weird lengths
+  // may lead to out-of-memory.

[Erik Corry, 2010/01/06 14:03:57]

This is somehow unsatisfactory.

+  "StringBuilderConcat": true,
+
   // These functions use pseudo-stack-pointers and are not robust
   // to unexpected integer values.
   "DebugEvaluate": true,
 
   // These functions do nontrivial error checking in recursive calls,
   // which means that we have to propagate errors back.
   "SetFunctionBreakPoint": true,
   "SetScriptBreakPoint": true,
   "ChangeBreakOnException": true,
   "PrepareStep": true,
 
   // Too slow.
   "DebugReferencedBy": true,
 
   // Calling disable/enable access checks may interfere with the
   // the rest of the tests.
   "DisableAccessChecks": true,
   "EnableAccessChecks": true,
-  
+
   // These functions should not be callable as runtime functions.
   "NewContext": true,
   "NewArgumentsFast": true,
   "PushContext": true,
   "LazyCompile": true,
   "CreateObjectLiteralBoilerplate": true,
   "CloneLiteralBoilerplate": true,
   "CloneShallowLiteralBoilerplate": true,
   "CreateArrayLiteralBoilerplate": true,
   "IS_VAR": true,
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     if (name in knownProblems || name in currentlyUncallable)
       continue;
     print(name);
     var argc = nativeInfo[1];
     testArgumentCount(name);
     testArgumentTypes(name, argc);
   }
 }
 
 testNatives();