Resulting in a massive rename across almost everywhere! Alongside the
namespace change, we now have the following names:
* JS::NonnullGCPtr -> GC::Ref
* JS::GCPtr -> GC::Ptr
* JS::HeapFunction -> GC::Function
* JS::CellImpl -> GC::Cell
* JS::Handle -> GC::Root
Instead, smuggle it in as a `void*` private data and let Javascript
aware code cast out that pointer to a VM&.
In order to make this split, rename JS::Cell to JS::CellImpl. Once we
have a LibGC, this will become GC::Cell. CellImpl then has no specific
knowledge of the VM& and Realm&. That knowledge is instead put into
JS::Cell, which inherits from CellImpl. JS::Cell is responsible for
JavaScript's realm initialization, as well as converting of the void*
private data to what it knows should be the VM&.
Now that the heap has no knowledge about a JavaScript realm and is
purely for managing the memory of the heap, it does not make sense
to name this function to say that it is a non-realm variant.
Problem:
- `(void)` simply casts the expression to void. This is understood to
indicate that it is ignored, but this is really a compiler trick to
get the compiler to not generate a warning.
Solution:
- Use the `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute to indicate the value is unused.
Note:
- Functions taking a `(void)` argument list have also been changed to
`()` because this is not needed and shows up in the same grep
command.
This was used for a feature where you could pass a vector of arguments
to enter_scope(). Since that way of passing arguments was not GC-aware
(as vectors use C++ heap storage), let's avoid using it and make sure
everything that needs to stay alive is either on the stack or in traced
storage instead.
We now lazily create an "arguments" array inside functions when code
tries to access it.
This doesn't follow the spec at all but still covers a lot of the
basic uses of arguments, i.e "arguments.length" and "arguments[n]"
Instead of hiding JS exceptions raised on the web, we now print them to
the debug log. This will make it a bit easier to work out why some web
pages aren't working right. :^)
Both GlobalObject and LexicalEnvironment now inherit from ScopeObject,
and the VM's call frames point to a ScopeObject chain rather than just
a LexicalEnvironment chain.
This gives us much more flexibility to implement things like "with",
and also unifies some of the code paths that previously required
special handling of the global object.
There's a bunch of more cleanup that can be done in the wake of this
change, and there might be some oversights in the handling of the
"super" keyword, but this generally seems like a good architectural
improvement. :^)
This prevents stack overflows when calling infinite/deep recursive
functions, e.g.:
const f = () => f(); f();
JSON.stringify({}, () => ({ foo: "bar" }));
new Proxy({}, { get: (_, __, p) => p.foo }).foo;
The VM caches a StackInfo object to not slow down function calls
considerably. VM::push_call_frame() will throw an exception if
necessary (plain Error with "RuntimeError" as its .name).
Keeping the VM call frames in a Vector could cause them to move around
underneath us due to Vector resizing. Avoid this issue by allocating
CallFrame objects on the stack and having the VM simply keep a list
of pointers to each CallFrame, instead of the CallFrames themselves.
Fixes#3830.
Fixes#3951.
A large number of JS strings are a single ASCII character. This patch
adds a 128-entry cache for those strings to the VM. The cost of the
cache is 1536 byte of GC heap (all in same block) + 2304 bytes malloc.
This avoids a lot of GC heap allocations, and packing all of these
in the same heap block is nice for fragmentation as well.
Roughly 7% of test-js runtime was spent creating FlyStrings from string
literals. This patch frontloads that work and caches all the commonly
used names in LibJS on a CommonPropertyNames struct that hangs off VM.
Previously, when a loop detected an unwind of type ScopeType::Function
(which means a return statement was executed inside of the loop), it
would just return undefined. This set the VM's last_value to undefined,
when it should have been the returned value. This patch makes all loop
statements return the appropriate value in the above case.
Since blocks can't be strict by themselves, it makes no sense for them
to store whether or not they are strict. Strict-ness is now stored in
the Program and FunctionNode ASTNodes. Fixes issue #3641
More work on decoupling the general runtime from Interpreter. The goal
is becoming clearer. Interpreter should be one possible way to execute
code inside a VM. In the future we might have other ways :^)
Okay, my vision here is improving. Interpreter should be a thing that
executes an AST. The scope stack is irrelevant to the VM proper,
so we can move that to the Interpreter. Same with execute_statement().
This patch moves the exception state, call stack and scope stack from
Interpreter to VM. I'm doing this to help myself discover what the
split between Interpreter and VM should be, by shuffling things around
and seeing what falls where.
With these changes, we no longer have a persistent lexical environment
for the current global object on the Interpreter's call stack. Instead,
we push/pop that environment on Interpreter::run() enter/exit.
Since it should only be used to find the global "this", and not for
variable storage (that goes directly into the global object instead!),
I had to insert some short-circuiting when walking the environment
parent chain during variable lookup.
Note that this is a "stepping stone" commit, not a final design.
Empty string is extremely common and we can avoid a lot of heap churn
by simply caching one in the VM. Primitive strings are immutable anyway
so there is no observable behavior change outside of fewer collections.
To make it a little clearer what this is for. (This is an RAII helper
class for adding and removing an Interpreter to a VM's list of the
currently active (executing code) Interpreters.)
Taking a big step towards a world of multiple global object, this patch
adds a new JS::VM object that houses the JS::Heap.
This means that the Heap moves out of Interpreter, and the same Heap
can now be used by multiple Interpreters, and can also outlive them.
The VM keeps a stack of Interpreter pointers. We push/pop on this
stack when entering/exiting execution with a given Interpreter.
This allows us to make this change without disturbing too much of
the existing code.
There is still a 1-to-1 relationship between Interpreter and the
global object. This will change in the future.
Ultimately, the goal here is to make Interpreter a transient object
that only needs to exist while you execute some code. Getting there
will take a lot more work though. :^)
Note that in LibWeb, the global JS::VM is called main_thread_vm(),
to distinguish it from future worker VM's.
