Andreas Gal :gal Reporter
	Description • 14 years ago

watchpoints incur some nasty complexity in our code base and are non-standard. We might be able to self-host a mechanism that offers almost the same features but doesn't require any specialized runtime support in the VM.

	Luke Wagner [:luke]
	Comment 1 • 14 years ago

\o/

	Andreas Gal :gal Reporter
	Comment 2 • 14 years ago

This is not as powerful as the native watch and has a bunch of corner cases (most notably it is not persistent across property deletions), but maybe its enough to deprecate the real watch code?

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 3 • 12 years ago

See also bug 638054 for removing Object.prototype.watch.

	Till Schneidereit [:till]
	Comment 4 • 12 years ago

With the infrastructure tracked by bug 784288, we could implement this in a safe way.

	David Bruant
	Comment 5 • 12 years ago

Object.watch is on its way to being removed in favor of a debugger-only alternative (bug 638054), so it might not be worth investing a lot of effort on this bug unless the fate of Object.watch changes.

	André Bargull [:anba]
	Comment 6 • 7 years ago

watch() was removed in bug 638054.