Upgrade the bundled V8 and update code in src/ and lib/ to the new API.
Notable backwards incompatible changes are the removal of the smalloc
module and dropped support for CESU-8 decoding. CESU-8 support can be
brought back if necessary by doing UTF-8 decoding ourselves.
This commit includes https://codereview.chromium.org/1192973004 to fix
a build error on python 2.6 systems. The original commit log follows:
Use optparse in js2c.py for python compatibility
Without this change, V8 won't build on RHEL/CentOS 6 because the
distro python is too old to know about the argparse module.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2022
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 92f5a5d3ca.
V8 3.7.1 in debug mode on ia32 has a curious race-like bug where an fs.Stats
object is not fully formed until some time after it's created. This is easy
to demonstrate by running `make test-debug`.
V8 3.7.0 does not exhibit this behaviour so back we go.
Fixes#1981.
There are serious performance regressions both in V8 and our own legacy
networking stack. Until we correct our own problems we are going back to the
old V8.
