When matching a CSS attribute selector against an HTML element, the
attribute name is case-insensitive. Before this change, that meant we
had to call equals_ignoring_ascii_case() on all the attribute names.
We now cache the attribute name lowercased on each Attr node, which
allows us to do FlyString-to-FlyString comparison (simple pointer
comparison).
This brings attribute selector matching from 6% to <1% when loading our
GitHub repo at https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
With this change, we now have ~1200 CellAllocators across both LibJS and
LibWeb in a normal WebContent instance.
This gives us a minimum heap size of 4.7 MiB in the scenario where we
only have one cell allocated per type. Of course, in practice there will
be many more of each type, so the effective overhead is quite a bit
smaller than that in practice.
I left a few types unconverted to this mechanism because I got tired of
doing this. :^)
This commit removes DeprecatedString's "null" state, and replaces all
its users with one of the following:
- A normal, empty DeprecatedString
- Optional<DeprecatedString>
Note that null states of DeprecatedFlyString/StringView/etc are *not*
affected by this commit. However, DeprecatedString::empty() is now
considered equal to a null StringView.
There are an unfortunate number of DeprecatedString conversions required
here, but these should all fall away and look much more pretty again
when other places are also ported away from DeprecatedString.
Leaves only the Element IDL interface left :^)
Instead of calling to_lowercase() on two strings for every step while
iterating over the HTMLCollection returned by getElementsByTagName(),
we now cache the lowercased tag name beforehand and reuse it.
2.4x speed-up on WebKit/PerformanceTests/DOM/DOMDivWalk.html
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.
Note that as of this commit, there aren't any such throwers, and the
call site in Heap::allocate will drop exceptions on the floor. This
commit only serves to change the declaration of the overrides, make sure
they return an empty value, and to propagate OOM errors frm their base
initialize invocations.
This needs to happen before prototype/constructor intitialization can be
made lazy. Otherwise, GC could run during the C++ constructor and try to
collect the object currently being created.
DeprecatedFlyString relies heavily on DeprecatedString's StringImpl, so
let's rename it to A) match the name of DeprecatedString, B) write a new
FlyString class that is tied to String.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
