We were doing a *lot* of string-to-int conversion while creating a new
global object. This happened because Object::put() would try to convert
the property name (string) to an integer to see if it refers to an
indexed property.
Sidestep this issue by using PropertyName for the CommonPropertyNames
struct on VM (vm.names.foo), and giving PropertyName a flag that tells
us whether it's a string that *may be* a number.
All CommonPropertyNames are set up so they are known to not be numbers.
As mentioned on Discord earlier, we'll add these to all new functions
going forward - this is the backfill. Reasons:
- It makes you look at the spec, implementing based on MDN or V8
behavior is a no-go
- It makes finding the various functions that are non-compliant easier,
in the future everything should either have such a comment or, if it's
not from the spec at all, a comment explaining why that is the case
- It makes it easier to check whether a certain abstract operation is
implemented in LibJS, not all of them use the same name as the spec.
E.g. RejectPromise() is Promise::reject()
- It makes it easier to reason about vm.arguments(), e.g. when the
function has a rest parameter
- It makes it easier to see whether a certain function is from a
proposal or Annex B
Also:
- Add arguments to all functions and abstract operations that already
had a comment
- Fix some outdated section numbers
- Replace some ecma-international.org URLs with tc39.es
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Letting these create and return a JS::Array directly is pretty awkward
since we then need to go through the indexed properties for iteration.
Just use a MarkedValueList (i.e. Vector<Value>) for this and add a new
Array::create_from() function to turn the Vector into a returnable
Array as we did before.
This brings it a lot closer to the spec as well, which uses the
CreateArrayFromList abstract operation to do exactly this.
There's an optimization opportunity for the future here, since we know
the Vector's size we could prepare the newly created Array accordingly,
e.g. by switching to generic storage upfront if needed.
Specifically:
- Object::get_own_properties()
- Object::put_own_property()
- Object::put_own_property_by_index()
These APIs make no sense (and are inconsistent, get_own_property()
didn't have this parameter, for example) - and as expected we were
always passing in the same object we were calling the method on anyway.
