RFC: Try to be much more careful with where we skip the write barrier by:...

src/objects.h

Index: src/objects.h
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--- src/objects.h	(revision 3737)
+++ src/objects.h	(working copy)
@@ -1023,8 +1023,12 @@
   // Casting.
   static inline HeapObject* cast(Object* obj);
 
-  // Return the write barrier mode for this.
-  inline WriteBarrierMode GetWriteBarrierMode();
+  // Return the write barrier mode for this. Callers of this function
+  // must be able to present a reference to an AssertNoAllocation
+  // object as a sign that they are not going to use this function
+  // from code that allocates and thus invalidates the returned write
+  // barrier mode.
+  inline WriteBarrierMode GetWriteBarrierMode(const AssertNoAllocation&);
 
   // Dispatched behavior.
   void HeapObjectShortPrint(StringStream* accumulator);
@@ -4475,6 +4479,10 @@
   // [length]: The length property.
   DECL_ACCESSORS(length, Object)
 
+  // Overload the length setter to skip write barrier when the length
+  // is set to a smi. This matches the set function on FixedArray.
+  inline void set_length(Smi* length);
+
   Object* JSArrayUpdateLengthFromIndex(uint32_t index, Object* value);
 
   // Initialize the array with the given capacity. The function may