When iterating over an iterable, we get back a JS object with the fields
"value" and "done".
Before this change, we've had two dedicated instructions for retrieving
the two fields: IteratorResultValue and IteratorResultDone. These had no
fast path whatsoever and just did a generic [[Get]] access to fetch the
corresponding property values.
By replacing the instructions with GetById("value") and GetById("done"),
they instantly get caching and JIT fast paths for free, making iterating
over iterables much faster. :^)
26% speed-up on this microbenchmark:
function go(a) {
for (const p of a) {
}
}
const a = [];
a.length = 1_000_000;
go(a);
This patch makes IteratorRecord an Object. Although it's not exposed to
author code, this does allow us to store it in a VM register.
Now that we can store it in a VM register, we don't need to convert it
back and forth between IteratorRecord and Object when accessing it from
bytecode.
The big win here is avoiding 3 [[Get]] accesses on every iteration step
of for..of loops. There are also a bunch of smaller efficiencies gained.
20% speed-up on this microbenchmark:
function go(a) {
for (const p of a) {
}
}
const a = [];
a.length = 1_000_000;
go(a);
Allows the bytecode interpreter to call the builtins c++
implementation directly without making a javascript call
just as the JIT.
Kraken test speedups: imaging-gaussian-blur.js (1.5x) and
audio-oscillator.js (1.2x)
The number of registers in a call frame never changes, so we can
allocate it at the end of the CallFrame object and save ourselves the
cost of allocating separate Vector storage for every call frame.
Instead of allocating these in a mixture of ways, we now always put
them on the malloc heap, and keep an intrusive linked list of them
that we can iterate for GC marking purposes.
This will not meaningfully affect short array literals, but it does
give us a bit of extra perf when evaluating huge array expressions like
in Kraken/imaging-darkroom.js
Until now, the unwind context stack has not been maintained by jitted
code, which meant we were unable to support the `with` statement.
This is a first step towards supporting that by making jitted code
call out to C++ to update the unwind context stack when entering/leaving
unwind contexts.
We also introduce a new "Catch" bytecode instruction that moves the
current exception into the accumulator. It's always emitted at the start
of a "catch" block.
This patch makes it possible for JS::Object::internal_set() to populate
a CacheablePropertyMetadata, and uses this to implement a basic
monomorphic cache for the most common form of property write access.
If Interpreter::run_and_return_frame is called with a specific entry
point we now map that to a native instruction address, which the JIT
code jumps to after the function prologue.
The previous implementation was calling `backtrace()` for every
function call, which is quite slow.
Instead, this implementation provides VM::stack_trace() which unwinds
the native stack, maps it through NativeExecutable::get_source_range
and combines it with source ranges from interpreted call frames.
This works by walking a backtrace until the currently executing
native executable is found, and then mapping the native address
to its bytecode instruction.
These are then restored upon `ContinuePendingUnwind`.
This stops us from forgetting where we needed to jump when we do extra
try-catches in finally blocks.
Co-Authored-By: Jesús "gsus" Lapastora <cyber.gsuscode@gmail.com>
