Currently, invoking StringBuilder::to_string will re-allocate the string
data to construct the String. This is wasteful both in terms of memory
and speed.
The goal here is to simply hand the string buffer over to String, and
let String take ownership of that buffer. To do this, StringBuilder must
have the same memory layout as Detail::StringData. This layout is just
the members of the StringData class followed by the string itself.
So when a StringBuilder is created, we reserve sizeof(StringData) bytes
at the front of the buffer. StringData can then construct itself into
the buffer with placement new.
Things to note:
* StringData must now be aware of the actual capacity of its buffer, as
that can be larger than the string size.
* We must take care not to pass ownership of inlined string buffers, as
these live on the stack.
Instead of do a wrappy MUST(try_append_code_point()), we now inline
the UTF-8 encoding logic. This allows us to grow the buffer by the
right increment up front, and also removes a bunch of ErrorOr ceremony
that we don't care about.
UTF8Decoder was already converting invalid data into replacement
characters while converting, so we know for sure we have valid UTF-8
by the time conversion is finished.
This patch adds a new StringBuilder::to_string_without_validation()
and uses it to make UTF8Decoder avoid half the work it was doing.
This commit un-deprecates DeprecatedString, and repurposes it as a byte
string.
As the null state has already been removed, there are no other
particularly hairy blockers in repurposing this type as a byte string
(what it _really_ is).
This commit is auto-generated:
$ xs=$(ack -l \bDeprecatedString\b\|deprecated_string AK Userland \
Meta Ports Ladybird Tests Kernel)
$ perl -pie 's/\bDeprecatedString\b/ByteString/g;
s/deprecated_string/byte_string/g' $xs
$ clang-format --style=file -i \
$(git diff --name-only | grep \.cpp\|\.h)
$ gn format $(git ls-files '*.gn' '*.gni')
To ensure this happens without duplicating code, we allow forcing a
StringBuilder object to only use the inline buffer, so the code in the
AK/Format.cpp file doesn't need to deal with different underlying
storage types (expandable or inline-fixed) at all.
Having an alias function that only wraps another one is silly, and
keeping the more obvious name should flush out more uses of deprecated
strings.
No behavior change.
These instances were detected by searching for files that include
AK/StdLibExtras.h, but don't match the regex:
\\b(abs|AK_REPLACED_STD_NAMESPACE|array_size|ceil_div|clamp|exchange|for
ward|is_constant_evaluated|is_power_of_two|max|min|mix|move|_RawPtr|RawP
tr|round_up_to_power_of_two|swap|to_underlying)\\b
(Without the linebreaks.)
This regex is pessimistic, so there might be more files that don't
actually use any "extra stdlib" functions.
In theory, one might use LibCPP to detect things like this
automatically, but let's do this one step after another.
DeprecatedString (formerly String) has been with us since the start,
and it has served us well. However, it has a number of shortcomings
that I'd like to address.
Some of these issues are hard if not impossible to solve incrementally
inside of DeprecatedString, so instead of doing that, let's build a new
String class and then incrementally move over to it instead.
Problems in DeprecatedString:
- It assumes string allocation never fails. This makes it impossible
to use in allocation-sensitive contexts, and is the reason we had to
ban DeprecatedString from the kernel entirely.
- The awkward null state. DeprecatedString can be null. It's different
from the empty state, although null strings are considered empty.
All code is immediately nicer when using Optional<DeprecatedString>
but DeprecatedString came before Optional, which is how we ended up
like this.
- The encoding of the underlying data is ambiguous. For the most part,
we use it as if it's always UTF-8, but there have been cases where
we pass around strings in other encodings (e.g ISO8859-1)
- operator[] and length() are used to iterate over DeprecatedString one
byte at a time. This is done all over the codebase, and will *not*
give the right results unless the string is all ASCII.
How we solve these issues in the new String:
- Functions that may allocate now return ErrorOr<String> so that ENOMEM
errors can be passed to the caller.
- String has no null state. Use Optional<String> when needed.
- String is always UTF-8. This is validated when constructing a String.
We may need to add a bypass for this in the future, for cases where
you have a known-good string, but for now: validate all the things!
- There is no operator[] or length(). You can get the underlying data
with bytes(), but for iterating over code points, you should be using
an UTF-8 iterator.
Furthermore, it has two nifty new features:
- String implements a small string optimization (SSO) for strings that
can fit entirely within a pointer. This means up to 3 bytes on 32-bit
platforms, and 7 bytes on 64-bit platforms. Such small strings will
not be heap-allocated.
- String can create substrings without making a deep copy of the
substring. Instead, the superstring gets +1 refcount from the
substring, and it acts like a view into the superstring. To make
substrings like this, use the substring_with_shared_superstring() API.
One caveat:
- String does not guarantee that the underlying data is null-terminated
like DeprecatedString does today. While this was nifty in a handful of
places where we were calling C functions, it did stand in the way of
shared-superstring substrings.
This will make it easier to support both string types at the same time
while we convert code, and tracking down remaining uses.
One big exception is Value::to_string() in LibJS, where the name is
dictated by the ToString AO.
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 :^)
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
Apologies for the enormous commit, but I don't see a way to split this
up nicely. In the vast majority of cases it's a simple change. A few
extra places can use TRY instead of manual error checking though. :^)
Same as Vector, ByteBuffer now also signals allocation failure by
returning an ENOMEM Error instead of a bool, allowing us to use the
TRY() and MUST() patterns.
Currently, to append a UTF-16 view to a StringBuilder, callers must
first convert the view to UTF-8 and then append the copy. Add a UTF-16
overload so callers do not need to hold an entire copy in memory.
Previously the StringBuilder class would use memcpy() to write
directly into the ByteBuffer's buffer. Instead we should use the
append() method which ensures we don't overrun the buffer.
Previously ByteBuffer::grow() behaved like Vector<T>::resize().
However the function name was somewhat ambiguous - and so this patch
updates ByteBuffer to behave more like Vector<T> by replacing grow()
with resize() and adding an ensure_capacity() method.
This also lets the user change the buffer's capacity without affecting
the size which was not previously possible.
Additionally this patch makes the capacity() method public (again).
Previously StringBuilder would start allocating an external buffer
once the caller has used up more than half of the inline buffer's
capacity. Instead we should prefer to use the inline buffer until
it is full and only then start to allocate an external buffer.
This was removed as part of the ByteBuffer changes but the allocation
optimization is still necessary at least for non-SerenityOS targets
where malloc_good_size() isn't supported or returns a small value and
causes a whole bunch of unnecessary reallocations.
Previously ByteBuffer would internally hold a RefPtr to the byte
buffer and would behave like a reference type, i.e. copying a
ByteBuffer would not create a duplicate byte buffer, but rather
two objects which refer to the same internal buffer.
This also changes ByteBuffer so that it has some internal capacity
much like the Vector<T> type. Unlike Vector<T> however a byte
buffer's data may be uninitialized.
With this commit ByteBuffer makes use of the kmalloc_good_size()
API to pick an optimal allocation size for its internal buffer.
