Turn old space cons strings into regular external strings (not short).

src/objects.cc

Index: src/objects.cc
diff --git a/src/objects.cc b/src/objects.cc
index c7e44e6c49fb37fdfd3fe208a53209010e944518..f0c0824342f990ffc4df20227e28304b1b9023b1 100644
--- a/src/objects.cc
+++ b/src/objects.cc
@@ -1067,18 +1067,13 @@ bool String::MakeExternal(v8::String::ExternalStringResource* resource) {
   bool is_internalized = this->IsInternalizedString();
 
   // Morph the string to an external string by replacing the map and
-  // reinitializing the fields.  This won't work if
-  // - the space the existing string occupies is too small for a regular
-  //   external string.
-  // - the existing string is in old pointer space and the backing store of
-  //   the external string is not aligned.  The GC cannot deal with a field
-  //   containing a possibly unaligned address to outside of V8's heap.
-  // In either case we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
+  // reinitializing the fields.  This won't work if the space the existing
+  // string occupies is too small for a regular  external string.

[Hannes Payer (out of office), 2014/07/03 11:37:18]

minus one blank before "external string"

+  // Instead, we resort to a short external string instead, omitting

[Hannes Payer (out of office), 2014/07/03 11:37:18]

drop the second instead

   // the field caching the address of the backing store.  When we encounter
   // short external strings in generated code, we need to bailout to runtime.
   Map* new_map;
-  if (size < ExternalString::kSize ||
-      heap->old_pointer_space()->Contains(this)) {
+  if (size < ExternalString::kSize) {
     new_map = is_internalized
         ? (is_ascii
             ? heap->
@@ -1139,18 +1134,13 @@ bool String::MakeExternal(v8::String::ExternalAsciiStringResource* resource) {
   bool is_internalized = this->IsInternalizedString();
 
   // Morph the string to an external string by replacing the map and
-  // reinitializing the fields.  This won't work if
-  // - the space the existing string occupies is too small for a regular
-  //   external string.
-  // - the existing string is in old pointer space and the backing store of
-  //   the external string is not aligned.  The GC cannot deal with a field
-  //   containing a possibly unaligned address to outside of V8's heap.
-  // In either case we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
+  // reinitializing the fields.  This won't work if the space the existing
+  // string occupies is too small for a regular  external string.

[Hannes Payer (out of office), 2014/07/03 11:37:18]

same as above

+  // Instead, we resort to a short external string instead, omitting
   // the field caching the address of the backing store.  When we encounter
   // short external strings in generated code, we need to bailout to runtime.
   Map* new_map;
-  if (size < ExternalString::kSize ||
-      heap->old_pointer_space()->Contains(this)) {
+  if (size < ExternalString::kSize) {
     new_map = is_internalized
         ? heap->short_external_ascii_internalized_string_map()
         : heap->short_external_ascii_string_map();