Keep track of the first non-ascii word/char to avoid redoing the work.

src/heap.cc

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     if (!maybe_result->ToObject(&result)) return maybe_result;
   }
 
   // Copy the characters into the new object.
   CopyChars(SeqAsciiString::cast(result)->GetChars(), string.start(), length);
   return result;
 }
 
 
 MaybeObject* Heap::AllocateStringFromUtf8Slow(Vector<const char> string,
+                                              const char* non_ascii_start,

[Yang, 2012/10/18 14:46:23]

Maybe it's cleaner to pass non_ascii_start as string index and not as an address
pointing into the backing store? You need that index anyways.

[Toon Verwaest, 2012/10/18 15:06:56]

Done.

                                               PretenureFlag pretenure) {
-  // Count the number of characters in the UTF-8 string and check if
-  // it is an ASCII string.
+  // Continue counting the number of characters in the UTF-8 string, starting
+  // from the first non-ascii character or word.
+  int chars = non_ascii_start - string.start();
   Access<UnicodeCache::Utf8Decoder>
       decoder(isolate_->unicode_cache()->utf8_decoder());
-  decoder->Reset(string.start(), string.length());
-  int chars = 0;
+  decoder->Reset(non_ascii_start, string.length() - chars);
   while (decoder->has_more()) {
     uint32_t r = decoder->GetNext();
     if (r <= unibrow::Utf16::kMaxNonSurrogateCharCode) {
       chars++;
     } else {
       chars += 2;
     }
   }
 
   Object* result;
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       static_cast<int>(object_sizes_last_time_[index]));
   FIXED_ARRAY_SUB_INSTANCE_TYPE_LIST(ADJUST_LAST_TIME_OBJECT_COUNT)
 #undef ADJUST_LAST_TIME_OBJECT_COUNT
 
   memcpy(object_counts_last_time_, object_counts_, sizeof(object_counts_));
   memcpy(object_sizes_last_time_, object_sizes_, sizeof(object_sizes_));
   ClearObjectStats();
 }
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal