Francisco Tolmasky has implemented cool hack/patch to webkit to solve the JavaScript Profilers displying “?” as the name of any anonymous functions, follow the link at the bottom of the post for the full story…

Here is the little excerpt from that article:

I had the pleasure of showing off some the cool new features we’ve been adding to the WebKit inspector at JSConf last week. It’s no secret that debugging basically sucks in JavaScript, and until recently, it was a little bit worse in Objective-J. Up until now we’ve focused mainly on adding stop gap measures to our own code, but recently we’ve decided to shift gears and attack the problem head on in the browsers themselves. This is why these past couple of weeks I’ve set aside the JavaScript code and instead focused on working with the great guys on the WebKit team on providing a solid debugging experience both in Objective-J and JavaScript in general. We first decided to focus on profiling, since this is an area of considerable interest for a framework…

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