This is an editorial change in the ECMA-262 spec. See:
https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/commit/12d3687
This AO is meant to replace usages of IteratorNext followed by
IteratorValue with a single operation.
Instead of going through the steps of creating an empty new object,
and adding two properties ("value" and "done") to it, we can pre-bake
a shape object and cache the property offsets.
This makes creating iterator result objects in the runtime much faster.
47% speedup 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);
This patch adds two macros to declare per-type allocators:
- JS_DECLARE_ALLOCATOR(TypeName)
- JS_DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(TypeName)
When used, they add a type-specific CellAllocator that the Heap will
delegate allocation requests to.
The result of this is that GC objects of the same type always end up
within the same HeapBlock, drastically reducing the ability to perform
type confusion attacks.
It also improves HeapBlock utilization, since each block now has cells
sized exactly to the type used within that block. (Previously we only
had a handful of block sizes available, and most GC allocations ended
up with a large amount of slack in their tails.)
There is a small performance hit from this, but I'm sure we can make
up for it elsewhere.
Note that the old size-based allocators still exist, and we fall back
to them for any type that doesn't have its own CellAllocator.
These functions all have a very common case that can be dealt with a
very simple inline check, often avoiding the need to call an out-of-line
function. This patch moves the common case to inline functions in a new
ValueInlines.h header (necessary due to header dependency issues..)
8% speed-up on the entire Kraken benchmark :^)
Stop worrying about tiny OOMs. Work towards #20449.
While going through these, I also changed the function signature in many
places where returning ThrowCompletionOr<T> is no longer necessary.
Rather than splitting the Iterator type and its AOs into two files,
let's combine them into one file to match every other JS runtime object
that we have.
Iterator.from creates an Iterator from either an existing iterator or
an iterator-like object. In the latter case, it sets the prototype of
the returned iterator to WrapForValidIteratorPrototype to wrap around
the iterator-like object's iteration methods.
