Infrastructure for reading V8's initial snapshot from external files

build/common.gypi

Index: build/common.gypi
diff --git a/build/common.gypi b/build/common.gypi
index 132fd7ce33a9f05a45ba714964f916d205ef11b7..7af618c40518d6448ff5a08299ec91c98824996c 100644
--- a/build/common.gypi
+++ b/build/common.gypi
@@ -986,6 +986,14 @@
         }, {
           'optimize_jni_generation%': 0,
         }],
+
+        # TODO(baixo): Enable v8_use_external_startup_data for Windows and Mac -
+        # http://crbug.com/421063

[jochen (gone - plz use gerrit), 2014/10/08 15:16:05]

what about chromeos?

[baixo, 2014/10/14 16:36:42]

Done.

+        ['OS=="linux" or OS=="android"', {
+          'v8_use_external_startup_data': 1,
+        }, {
+          'v8_use_external_startup_data': 0,
+        }],
       ],
 
       # Set this to 1 to enable use of concatenated impulse responses
@@ -1182,6 +1190,7 @@
     'video_hole%': '<(video_hole)',
     'enable_load_completion_hacks%': '<(enable_load_completion_hacks)',
     'support_pre_M6_history_database%': '<(support_pre_M6_history_database)',
+    'v8_use_external_startup_data': '<(v8_use_external_startup_data)',
 
     # Whether or not we are building the Athena shell.
     'use_athena%': '0',
@@ -2904,6 +2913,9 @@
       ['enable_load_completion_hacks==1', {
         'defines': ['ENABLE_LOAD_COMPLETION_HACKS=1'],
       }],
+      ['v8_use_external_startup_data==1', {
+       'defines': ['V8_USE_EXTERNAL_STARTUP_DATA'],
+      }],
     ],  # conditions for 'target_defaults'
     'target_conditions': [
       ['<(use_openssl)==1', {