923841 - Add new component for JavaScript JIT compilers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Jan de Mooij [:jandem]]

We'd like to add a new component to the Core product. Default assignee, QA contact and other fields not mentioned below should be the same as for the JavaScript Engine component.

Details:

* Name: JavaScript Engine: JIT
* Product: Core
* Description: JavaScript engine's JIT compilers

The "JavaScript Engine:" prefix is there for consistency with other subcomponents.

FWIW, the idea for a new component was proposed in the following mailing list thread: https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-tech-js-engine-internals/2013-October/001230.html

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

A few of us in Brussels were (independently, it seems!) discussing this sort of thing.  We think there shouldn't just be a new component for the JIT -- we really should have several different JS components.  The list we came up with (assuming I remember it fully) was:

* GC
* JIT
* Front end
* Standard library
* "VM" (representation structures, interpreter, etc.)
* "General" (all existing bugs, unless someone feels like retriaging them; also all new bugs, for people who aren't sure of a better spot)

Also, while Core :: JavaScript Engine: GC is not entirely unreasonable, it does make filing slightly harder.  I would much prefer a top-level product for JS, with subcomponents for those others.  If that can't be done because of Bugzilla flag suckage, oh well.  (But, given the number of things that use the sub-colon scheme, maybe in that case we should push on the BMO people to fix Bugzilla in this regard.)

Comment 2

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

For this bug, let's just add a JIT component, and let's talk the rest over on IRC or js-engine, preferably after the summit.

Comment 3

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Done