Although this patch is not small, most parts of it are rather mechanical:
* First of all, the concept of a 'nil-like' value is introduced, which can be
null or undefined. They are treated symmetrically regarding comparisons, so
it makes sense to handle them in a uniform manner. It is a mystery why
JavaScript defines two of those beasts, when even *one* is a design wart...
* Extended and renamed a few things which now handle undefined in addition to
null.
* Made the parts of the full code generator and the hydrogen generation which
deal with comparisons a bit more similar regarding their handling of special
cases.
* Refactored the syntactical detection of special cases for comparisons,
hopefully making them a bit more readable and less copy-n-paste-oriented.
Things like this should really be a one-liner in any sane programming
language... :-P
* Cut down the length of the argument lists of a few functions to something
less insane, making them more easily understandable locally. This involves
minor code duplication, but this was a good tradeoff and can be remedied
later if necessary.
* Replaced some boolean arguments with more readable enums.
* Fixed a TODO: Values which are definitely a Smi or unboxed can never be equal
to null or undefined.
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The Great Master Plan is to move the recognition of special cases for
comparisons further down the compilation pipeline where more information is
available. This is a first step into this direction: The special handling of
equality comparisons involving null is pushed from the parser to the code
generators, removing the need for a special AST node. (There are rumors from
usually well-informed sources that this node type is actually a relic of ancient
crankshaft days...)
The next steps will be the unification of null/undefined handling and pushing
the special case handling in crankshaft even further down the pipeline, enabling
the recognition of cases like "var foo=null; if (foo === bar) ...", but these
will be in separate CLs.
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/7887037
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Some AST nodes (Property, Call, etc.) store either a list of receiver
types or a monomorphic receiver type. This patch merges the two fields
using a small pointer list. GetMonomorphicReceiverType() is now a
purely convenience function returning the first and only recorded
type.
This saves about 500K (of about 39M) on average when compiling V8
benchmark as measured by a simple patch adding a zone allocation
counter (https://gist.github.com/1149397).
R=kmillikin@chromium.org
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Remove the try/finally used for with and catch. Instead of using
try/finally to handle break and continue from with or catch,
statically track nesting dept and clean up when compiling break or
continue.
And instead of using try/finally to handle throw to handler in a frame
whose pc is inside a with or catch, store the context that the handler
should run in in the handler itself.
BUG=
TEST=
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Detect the pattern in both, the full compiler and crankshaft and generate direct pointer
comparisons. Along the way I cleaned up 'typeof <expression> == <string literal>' comparisons
as well by lifting platform independent code and checking the symmetric case.
BUG=v8:1440
TEST=cctest/test-api.cc
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Introduce separate maps for function and with contexts. Use the function
context map for testing whether a context is a function context (global
contexts are no longer function contexts).
Split the paths for allocating with and catch contexts.
Rename some functions. Generally refactor code to make it simpler.
R=ager@chromium.org
BUG=
TEST=
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Only IA32 version for now. I'll start porting.
Strict mode functions are to get 'undefined' as the receiver when
called with an implicit receiver. Modes are bad! It forces us to have
checks on all function calls.
This change attempts to limit the cost by passing information about
whether or not a call is with an implicit or explicit receiver in ecx
as part of the calling convention. The cost is setting ecx on all
calls and checking ecx on entry to strict mode functions.
Implicit/explicit receiver state has to be maintained by ICs. Various
stubs have to not clobber ecx or save and restore it.
CallFunction stub needs to check if the receiver is implicit when it
doesn't know from the context.
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/7039036
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In the cases where a global property cell cannot be used in the optimized code
use standard load ic to get the property instead of bailing out.
This is re-committing r7212 and r7215 which where reverted in r7239 with the addition of recoring the source position in the hydrogen code for the LoadGlobalCell instruction. To record that position an optional position field has been added to the variable proxy AST node.
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Worth mentioning:
- Specialized versions of pixel array and store/loads inside the generic stubs have been removed, since to have parity for all external arrays, 8 different versions would have to be inlined/checked.
- There's a new constant in v8.h for external arrays with pixel array elements.
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Refactor construction of switch statements so it doesn't use class
HSubgraph.
There are also a few improvements. We do not use an auxiliary list of
comparisons because they're embedded as a linked list in the graph
under construction. We share a common break block for all breaks from
the same switch. We do not insert empty blocks unless necessary to
maintain edge-split form.
There is also a bug fix. The entry to a clause body is a potential
join and must have a join ID set, otherwise deoptimization within the
body can go to an unpredictable place in the unoptimized code.
Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/6650021
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To avoid deopts a few extra changes were needed:
o Enable megamorphic state for special property loads on
primitives. We used to flip between monomorphic stubs.
o Extract pure string (no string wrapper support) version of the
string length stub.
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