The new instance type 'Symbol' represents ES6 symbols (a.k.a. private/unique names). Currently, symbols are simple data objects that only carry a hash code, random-generated upon allocation.
The new type 'Name' now serves as the common super class for strings and symbols, and is supposed to represent property names. We will eventually migrate APIs from String to Name for the standard key type.
Strings and symbols share the same hash field representation, via the Name class. This way, we should be able to use the same code paths for symbols and internalized strings in most cases. Also, Symbol's instance type code is allocated adjacent to internalized string codes in the enum, allowing a simple range check for the common case.
Baseline CL: https://codereview.chromium.org/12210083/R=mstarzinger@chromium.org
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in preparation of the introduction of ES6 'symbols' (aka private/unique names).
The SymbolTable became the StringTable. I also made sure to adapt all comments. The only remaining use of the term "symbol" (other than unrelated uses in the parser and such) is now 'NewSymbol' in the API and the 'V8.KeyedLoadGenericSymbol' counter, changing which might break embedders.
The one functional change in this CL is that I removed the former 'empty_string' constant, since it is redundant given the 'empty_symbol' constant that we also had (and both were used inconsistently).
R=yangguo@chromium.org
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This includes:
* adding the CODE_ADD_LINE_POS_INFO, CODE_START_LINE_INFO_RECORDING, CODE_END_LINE_INFO_RECORDING event and the corresponding functionality.
* adding the JITCodeLineInfo struct to record the code line info. I added this definition because Danno mentioned that "we'd like to cleanup and decouple the external debugging functionality"
* some other small changes.
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/12223027
Patch from Chunyang Dai <chunyang.dai@intel.com>.
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Note that leaving out the Isolate parameter previously had a very special
meaning, namely "use the *default* Isolate", i.e. the one magically created at
program initialization time. All other API entries use the meaning "current
Isolate", which is different in a multi-threaded setting and confusing.
Temporarily disabled deprecations until Chrome is ready.
BUG=v8:2487
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Removed the following deprecated functions:
* Object::GetPointerFromInternalField
* Object::SetPointerInInternalField
* External::Wrap
* External::Unwrap
* Context::GetData
* Context::SetData
They have been deprecated in the 3.15 branch and are not used by Chrome anymore.
Furthermore, judging from bug reports and email threads, embedders like node.js
and others are already using 3.15, too. All removed API entries can be emulated
by a one-liner, so adapting should not be hard for anybody.
We want to introduce more deprecations soon, but to keep things simple and avoid
having old and not-so-old deprecations in v8.h, the 3.15 deprecations are now
removed.
In general, the strategy of keeping deprecated things for one stable release and
then removing them seems to be a good compromise between a maintenance nightmare
and annoying external embedders. :-)
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Two new methods are added to allow embedders to determine that execution
should be resumed at a particular point in the stack without being forced
to unwind all JS frames.
* V8::ResumeExecution() -- When execution is terminated via a call to
V8::TerminateExecution(), this method can be called to clear the
termination exception so that the engine can continue to be used.
* TryCatch::HasTerminated() -- When a TryCatch has caught a termination
exception, HasTerminated() will return true to indicate it is valid to
call V8::ResumeExecution() if desired.
A test case is added to cctest/test-thread-termination.cc.
BUG=v8:2361
Patch from Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com>.
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11142013
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This requires adding a new JSObject to the strong root list and populating it from
object-observe.js. The main other change is that we now directly use ObjectHashTable
from JS rather than using WeakMap, since using the latter would end up leaking whichever
Context initialized that observation state.
Added a test via the API showing that different contexts all end up working on the same state.
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/11274014
Patch from Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org>.
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Added highly efficient Object::SetAlignedPointerInInternalField and
Object::GetAlignedPointerFromInternalField functions for 2-byte-aligned
pointers. Their non-aligned counterparts Object::GetPointerFromInternalField and
Object::SetPointerInInternalField are now deprecated utility functions.
External is now a true Value again, with New/Value/Cast using a JSObject with an
internal field containing a Foreign. External::Wrap, and External::Unwrap are now
deprecated utility functions.
Added Context::GetEmbedderData and Context::SetEmbedderData. Deprecated
Context::GetData and Context::SetData, these are now only wrappers to access
internal field 0.
Added highly efficient Context::SetAlignedPointerInEmbedderData and
Context::GetAlignedPointerFromEmbedderData functions for 2-byte-aligned
pointers.
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/11190050
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The patch introduces CommittedPhysicalMemory function to
the Heap class that reports committed *physical* memory acquired
for the heap from the OS.
It is important because some OSes may defer actual committment on e.g.
first access to the region.
So reporting just plain committed size led to various weird artifacts
like showing V8 allocated memory higher than the whole process
private size.
BUG=v8:2191
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/11066118
Patch from Alexei Filippov <alph@chromium.org>.
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In WebKit, we have a small integer cache because calling v8::Integer::New is
slow. This patch adds a faster API for creating integers that requires the
caller to supply the v8::Isolate, saving us the work of looking up the isolate
in thread-local storage.
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Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/11212004
Patch from Adam Barth <abarth@chromium.org>.
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This API lets the embedder enumerate handles that have class ids. WebKit will
use this feature during garbage collection to compute object groups for DOM
nodes. Previously, we kept a list of DOM nodes on the WebKit side, but that
list is redundant with the global handles list in V8.
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/11190011
Patch from Adam Barth <abarth@chromium.org>.
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The patch introduces CommittedPhysicalMemory function to the Heap class
that reports committed *physical* memory acquired from the OS.
It is important because some OSes may postpone actual commitment on e.g.
first access to the previously committed region.
So reporting just plain committed size led to various weird artifacts
like DevTools showing V8 allocated memory higher than the whole process
private size.
BUG=v8:2191
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/10961042
Patch from Alexei Filippov <alph@chromium.org>.
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In WebKit, we would like to store a void* to a data structure that contains
lots of exciting per-context data. The current API restricts us to storing only
Strings, which is less useful.
I've also cleaned up the implementation of GetData to be less convoluted.
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/10907189
Patch from Adam Barth <abarth@chromium.org>.
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