Bug 209667

Summary: Optimize frequently used Document::canAcceptChild
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eugene But <eugenebut>
Component: WebKit2Assignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Minor CC: darin
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Eugene But
Reported 2020-03-27 11:07:57 PDT
This came up during the codereview here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208311#c53 Darin Adler said: "Can’t help noticing that this function is not written with efficiency in mind. The nodeType virtual function is pretty expensive and we call it 3 times!" and "this can be optimized for all the common cases to not call nodeType at all, using functions like isElementNode and isTextNode that are inline single bit checks. Only exotic cases would require calls to nodeType."
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Darin Adler
Comment 1 2020-03-27 11:27:37 PDT
I do want to be a bit cautious about not complicating this to optimize it if there’s no evidence a faster version would make any practical difference. So maybe we shouldn’t do it even though I suggested it. Would be easy to do, though.
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