Disable --string-slices.

This is an experiment to quantify the impact of SlicedStrings on both
performance and memory usage. The intention is to get Canary coverage
for the experiment and then decide how to proceed.

Bug: v8:7025
Change-Id: Ied548cd9e2fab127c1ad2aea3e60b2615d3de663
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/750082
Commit-Queue: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Guo <yangguo@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#49070}
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.