On 12/7/09 3:13 AM, Mike Wilson wrote: > It seems to me that retaining unrecognized properties is quite > trivial That really depends. For example, Gecko's property storage is optimized for low memory use and speed of certain access patterns. Properties aren't stored as strings, but as packed parsed values (effectively a "compiled" format). Not only that but they're identified by numeric identifiers (again as a performance optimization; this allows looking up information about them via array indexing). It's not quite obvious to me how to sanely store unrecognized properties in this setup, and it would certainly require a good bit of reworking of the current code and data structures. -BorisReceived on Monday, 7 December 2009 15:46:58 UTC
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