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    Add V8 snapshot support · 52ef2ee5
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    A V8 snapshot is a serialized representation of the JavaScript heap.
    Using a snapshot can vastly speed up V8 initialization.
    
    This commit introduces a new tool, mkv8snapshot. mkv8snapshot is
    automatically invoked as part of building QtV8, and generates a .cpp
    file which is compiled into the QtV8 library.
    
    Because mkv8snapshot itself needs to initialize the V8 environment
    the non-snapshot way (i.e., by evaluating thousands of lines of
    JavaScript), it needs to build all of V8. This means that V8 is
    effectively built twice when snapshots are enabled.
    
    When cross-compiling, only host=i386 and target=arm is supported,
    since that's the only relevant case for which V8 currently
    supports a simulator. mkv8snapshot is built and run as a host tool
    (using the simulator), and generates a snapshot that will be used
    on the target.
    
    Task-number: QTBUG-21152
    Change-Id: I9270652f129505508f78db8b0a39fbf57dc8b86d
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFriedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@nokia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>
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