whats the difference between v8::Handle and v8::Local ?

[David Xanatos]

whats the difference between v8::Handle and v8::Local ?

[Sven Panne]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:32 AM, David Xanatos <xanato...@gmail.com> wrote:

whats the difference between v8::Handle and v8::Local ?

"Handle" is a historical artifact and will go away completely soon: There will be only v8::Local (normal implicitly handled references to JavaScript object) and v8::Global (explicitly handled persistent references, currently known as "UniquePersistent", but this name will go away, too).

All those handle-related changes in the external API are a bit unfortunate, but it simply took us some time to make the API correct and more or less fool-proof.

[David Xanatos]

So I should use v8::Local everyware where i now have v8::Handle ok

and what about v8::Persistent is that repalced by v8::Global?

[David Xanatos]

PS: do i still need HandleScope if working with v8::Local ?

[Sven Panne]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:58 AM, David Xanatos <xanato...@gmail.com> wrote:

[...] and what about v8::Persistent is that repalced by v8::Global?

If you're working with a bleeding edge v8, you should use v8::Global already.

[Sven Panne]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:01 AM, David Xanatos <xanato...@gmail.com> wrote:

PS: do i still need HandleScope if working with v8::Local ?

Yes, nothing changed regarding this.

[David Xanatos]

Is v8-git-mirror-4.3.26.zip bleeding edge or is that a stabile build?

[Sven Panne]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:34 AM, David Xanatos <xanato...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is v8-git-mirror-4.3.26.zip bleeding edge or is that a stabile build?

It's an almost bleeding edge vesion, see https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror/branches: It's currently 30 commits behind.

[David Xanatos]

ok, and which version would be the last stabile one?

[Shezan Baig]

The V8 embedder's guide [1] still mentioned using v8::UniquePersistent or v8::Persistent.  Should that be updated to suggest using v8::Global instead?

[1] https://developers.google.com/v8/embed#handles-and-garbage-collection

[Michael Hablich]

Unfortunately the transition is not complete yet.