Although it has some interesting properties, SipHash is brutally slow
compared to our previous hash function. Since its introduction, it has
been highly visible in every profile of doing anything interesting with
LibJS or LibWeb.
By switching back, we gain a 10x speedup for 32-bit hashes, and "only"
a 3x speedup for 64-bit hashes.
This comes out to roughly 1.10x faster HashTable insertion, and roughly
2.25x faster HashTable lookup. Hashing is no longer at the top of
profiles and everything runs measurably faster.
For security-sensitive hash tables with user-controlled inputs, we can
opt into SipHash selectively on a case-by-case basis. The vast majority
of our uses don't fit that description though.
SipHash is highly HashDoS-resistent, initialized with a random seed at
startup (i.e. non-deterministic) and usable for security-critical use
cases with large enough parameters. We just use it because it's
reasonably secure with parameters 1-3 while having excellent properties
and not being significantly slower than before.
There was a small mishmash of argument order, as seen on the table:
| Traits<T>::equals(U, T) | Traits<T>::equals(T, U)
============= | ======================= | =======================
uses equals() | HashMap | Vector, HashTable
defines equals() | *String[^1] | ByteBuffer
[^1]: String, DeprecatedString, their Fly-type equivalents and KString.
This mostly meant that you couldn't use a StringView for finding a value
in Vector<String>.
I'm changing the order of arguments to make the trait type itself first
(`Traits<T>::equals(T, U)`), as I think it's more expected and makes us
more consistent with the rest of the functions that put the stored type
first (like StringUtils functions and binary_serach). I've also renamed
the variable name "other" in find functions to "entry" to give more
importance to the value.
With this change, each of the following lines will now compile
successfully:
Vector<String>().contains_slow("WHF!"sv);
HashTable<String>().contains("WHF!"sv);
HashMap<ByteBuffer, int>().contains("WHF!"sv.bytes());
A lot of places were relying on AK/Traits.h to give it strnlen, memcmp,
memcpy and other related declarations.
In the quest to remove inclusion of LibC headers from Kernel files, deal
with all the fallout of this included-everywhere header including less
things.
While at it, rename the `read_trivial_value` and `write_trivial_value`
functions to `read_value` and `write_value` respectively, since we'll
add compatibility for non-trivial types down the line.
This patch adds the `USING_AK_GLOBALLY` macro which is enabled by
default, but can be overridden by build flags.
This is a step towards integrating Jakt and AK types.
This commit un-confuses the many specialisations of AK::Traits, and
makes it work correctly for all integral types.
Prior to this, `AK::Traits<size_t>` would've been instantiating the
base Traits implementation, not `Traits<u32>` or `Traits<u64>`.
Also, the PeekType of smart pointers is now T* instead of const T*.
Note: This commit doesn't compile, it breaks HashMap::get() for some
types. Fixed in the next commit.
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 *
Problem:
- `find` is implemented inside of each container. This coupling
requires that each container needs to individually provide `find`.
Solution:
- Decouple the `find` functionality from the container. This allows
provides a `find` algorithm which can work with all
containers. Containers can still provide their own `find` in the
case where it can be optimized.
- This also allows for searching sub-ranges of a container rather than
the entire container as some of the container-specific member
functions enforced.
Note:
- @davidstone's talk from 2015 C++Now conference entitled "Functions
Want to be Free" encourages this style:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lVlC0xzXDc), but it does come at
the cost of composability.
- A logical follow-on to this is to provide a mechanism to use a
short-hand function which automatically searches the entire
container. This could automatically use the container-provided
version if available so that functions which provide their own
optimized version get the benefit.
This was only used by HashTable::dump() which I used when doing the
first HashTable implementation. Removing this allows us to also remove
most includes of <AK/kstdio.h>.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
Add the concept of a PeekType to Traits<T>. This is the type we'll
return (wrapped in an Optional) from HashMap::get().
The PeekType for OwnPtr<T> and NonnullOwnPtr<T> is const T*,
which means that HashMap::get() will return an Optional<const T*> for
maps-of-those.
This can definitely be improved with better trivial type detection and
by using the TypedTransfer template in more places.
It's a bit annoying that we can't get <type_traits> in Vector.h since
it's included in the toolchain compilation before we have libstdc++.
This is prep work for supporting HashMap with NonnullRefPtr<T> as values.
It's currently not possible because many HashTable functions require being
able to default-construct the value type.
Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.
The SpinLock was all backwards and didn't actually work. Fixing it exposed
how wrong most of the locking here is.
I need to come up with a better granularity here.
