STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1) Breakpoint in the JSOP_CALLNAME case in jsops.cpp 2) Load attached testcase. 3) Step down to right after the PROPERTY_CACHE_TEST when trying to call doclick 4) Observer that atom != null, and is in fact "doclick". 5) Note that this happens every time we try to call doclick. 6) Profile and observe that this does a resolve on the document, which does various DOM traversal stuff and otherwise sucks.

ccing my friendly propcache victims. ;)

One thing to try is to step into js_FullTestPropertyCache (within PROPERTY_CACHE_TEST) and see why it fails to hit. Another route: define JS_PROPERTY_CACHE_METERING and look at /tmp/propcache.stats. /be

In js_FindPropertyHelper, scopeChain is the <div>'s JSObject, which has a parent and is not a js_IsCacheableNonGlobalScope. So we never even try to fill the propcache in this case.

Sorry, should have seen that coming -- see bug 503694. Fixable, but we reckoned unobtrusive JS was favored style, event handlers want to be short/concise, so we didn't need to work on optimizing deep native scope chain traces. Were we wrong? /be

For purposes of actual web compat, probably not. For purposes of silly benchmarks that have the event handler call a function that basically does nothing? Not sure. :(