Specifically:
- Introduce Symbol and SymbolObject classes.
- Generalise Object::Has and Object::Delete to arbitrary Value-typed keys.
- Generalise some places in the API implementation from String to Name.
It is not possible to intercept symbol-named properties. That is consistent with the idea that symbols are private and should not leak.
R=svenpanne@chromium.org
BUG=v8:2158
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/13626002
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@14210 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
Since symbols and strings share a common representation, most of this change is about consistently replacing 'String' with 'Name' in all places where property names are expected. In particular, no new logic at all is necessary for maps, property dictionaries, or transitions. :) The only places where an actual case distinction is needed have to do with generated type checks, and with conversions of names to strings (especially in logger and profiler).
Left in some TODOs wrt to the API: interceptors and native getters don't accept symbols as property names yet, because that would require extending the external v8.h.
(Baseline CL: https://codereview.chromium.org/12296026/)
R=verwaest@chromium.org,mstarzinger@chromium.org
BUG=v8:2158
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/12330012
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@13811 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
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
BUG=
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/12210083
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@13781 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
Unified parameter order of CreateHandle with the rest of v8 on the way. A few
Isolate::Current()s had to be introduced, which is not nice, and not every place
will win a beauty contest, but we can clean this up later easily in smaller steps.
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/12300018
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@13717 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
This CL adds multiple things:
Transition arrays do not directly point at their descriptor array anymore, but rather do so via an indirect pointer (a JSGlobalPropertyCell).
An ownership bit is added to maps indicating whether it owns its own descriptor array or not.
Maps owning a descriptor array can pass on ownership if a transition from that map is generated; but only if the descriptor array stays exactly the same; or if a descriptor is added.
Maps that don't have ownership get ownership back if their direct child to which ownership was passed is cleared in ClearNonLiveTransitions.
To detect which descriptors in an array are valid, each map knows its own NumberOfOwnDescriptors. Since the descriptors are sorted in order of addition, if we search and find a descriptor with index bigger than this number, it is not valid for the given map.
We currently still build up an enumeration cache (although this may disappear). The enumeration cache is always built for the entire descriptor array, even if not all descriptors are owned by the map. Once a descriptor array has an enumeration cache for a given map; this invariant will always be true, even if the descriptor array was extended. The extended array will inherit the enumeration cache from the smaller descriptor array. If a map with more descriptors needs an enumeration cache, it's EnumLength will still be set to invalid, so it will have to recompute the enumeration cache. This new cache will also be valid for smaller maps since they have their own enumlength; and use this to loop over the cache. If the EnumLength is still invalid, but there is already a cache present that is big enough; we just initialize the EnumLength field for the map.
When we apply ClearNonLiveTransitions and descriptor ownership is passed back to a parent map, the descriptor array is trimmed in-place and resorted. At the same time, the enumeration cache is trimmed in-place.
Only transition arrays contain descriptor arrays. If we transition to a map and pass ownership of the descriptor array along, the child map will not store the descriptor array it owns. Rather its parent will keep the pointer. So for every leaf-map, we find the descriptor array by following the back pointer, reading out the transition array, and fetching the descriptor array from the JSGlobalPropertyCell. If a map has a transition array, we fetch it from there. If a map has undefined as its back-pointer and has no transition array; it is considered to have an empty descriptor array.
When we modify properties, we cannot share the descriptor array. To accommodate this, the child map will get its own transition array; even if there are not necessarily any transitions leaving from the child map. This is necessary since it's the only way to store its own descriptor array.
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10909007
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@12492 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
The order by name is maintained as secondary order by using unused bits in the property details.
This is preliminary work towards sharing descriptors arrays.
The change allows us
- to get rid of the LastAdded bits in the map, binding it to the number of valid descriptors for the given map
- to avoid resorting by enumeration index to create the cache
- (maybe in the future, depending on performance) to get rid of the enumeration cache altogether.
Although generally the number_of_descriptors equals the NumberOfOwnDescriptors in the current version, this is preliminary work towards sharing descriptors, where maps may have more descriptors than are valid for the map.
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10879013
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@12385 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
in anticipation of the upcoming lexical global scope.
Mostly automatised as:
for FILE in `egrep -ril "global[ _]?context" src test/cctest`
do
echo $FILE
sed "s/Global context/Native context/g" <$FILE >$FILE.0
sed "s/global context/native context/g" <$FILE.0 >$FILE.1
sed "s/global_context/native_context/g" <$FILE.1 >$FILE.2
sed "s/GLOBAL_CONTEXT/NATIVE_CONTEXT/g" <$FILE.2 >$FILE.3
sed "s/GlobalContext/NativeContext/g" <$FILE.3 >$FILE
rm $FILE.[0-9]
done
R=mstarzinger@chromium.org
BUG=
TEST=
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10832342
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@12325 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
In this design maps contain descriptor arrays, which in turn can contain transition arrays. If transitions are needed when no descriptor array is present, a descriptor array without real descriptors is inserted just so it can point at the transition array.
The transition array does not contain details about the field it transitions to. In order to weed out transitions to FIELDs from CONSTANT_FUNCTION (what used to be MAP_TRANSITION vs CONSTANT_TRANSITION), the transition needs to be followed and the details need to be looked up in the target map. CALLBACKS transitions are still easy to recognize since the transition targets are stored as an AccessorPair containing the maps, rather than the maps directly.
Currently AccessorPairs containing a transition and an accessor are shared between the descriptor array and the transition array. This simplifies lookup since we only have to look in one of both arrays. This will change in subsequent revisions, when descriptor arrays will become shared between multiple maps, since transitions cannot be shared.
Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10697015
git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@11994 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
