[Development] QML, v8 and freezing the global object

[Harri Porten]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Thomas McGuire wrote:

> Could we maybe simple get rid of object freezing, and not freeze the global
> object?
> What would the consequences of that be, anything bad? I am the opinion that if
> the user wants to override the "console" object, let him. Maybe there were
> other reasons for freezing the global object though?

My guesses for a possible difference: performance of script execution. 
Once the global object is frozen the JIT compiler can make certain 
assumptions that otherwise are not possible.

Security might be another factor.

Harri.