This is a little experiment to move Failure to a superclass above Object...

src/code-stubs.cc

 // Copyright 2006-2008 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 // modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
 // met:
 //
 //     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 //       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 //     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
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     GenerateCode(&masm);
 
     // Create the code object.
     CodeDesc desc;
     masm.GetCode(&desc);
 
     // Try to copy the generated code into a heap object.
     Code::Flags flags = Code::ComputeFlags(
         static_cast<Code::Kind>(GetCodeKind()),
         InLoop(),
+    Object* new_object;
+    { TryAllocation t = Heap::CreateCode(desc, flags, masm.CodeObject());
+      if (!t->ToObject(&new_object)) return t;
+    }
         GetICState());
-    Object* new_object = Heap::CreateCode(desc, flags, masm.CodeObject());
-    if (new_object->IsFailure()) return new_object;
     code = Code::cast(new_object);
     RecordCodeGeneration(code, &masm);
 
     if (has_custom_cache()) {
       SetCustomCache(code);
     } else {
       // Try to update the code cache but do not fail if unable.
       new_object = Heap::code_stubs()->AtNumberPut(GetKey(), code);
       if (!new_object->IsFailure()) {
         Heap::public_set_code_stubs(NumberDictionary::cast(new_object));
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     default:
       if (!allow_unknown_keys) {
         UNREACHABLE();
       }
       return NULL;
   }
 }
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal